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MEMORIALS 



Massachusetts Society 



The Cincinnati. 



EDITED BY 



JAMES M. BUGBEE. 




BOSTON: 

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. 

1890. 



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Copyri^^ht, 1S90, 
3y the Massachusetts SociExy of the Cincinnati 



Eliiiljcrsito ^3rr5S: 
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge 



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Extract from the Address of the Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, 
President, July 4, 1S89. 

"It is now seventeen years since the publication of the last 
memorial volume, which proved a great success ; and in the mean time 
our membership has changed very much by reason of the death of 
old members and the admission of new ones There is considerable 
new and interesting matter now available, which may be scattered and 
lost unless it is preserved in permanent form. I would respectfully 
suggest that the subject of engaging the services of some competent 
person to prepare a new volume similar in style to the one published 
in 1873, be referred to the Standing Committee, with full powers." 



At the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Society of 
THE Cincinnati, held July 4, 1889, on motion of Edward S. Mose- 
LEY, Esq., it was — 

Voted, That in accordance with a suggestion contained in the 
President's address, the subject of engaging the services of some 
competent person to prepare a new Memorial Volume, similar in style 
to the one published in 1873, be referred to the Standing Committee, 
with full powers. 

At a meeting of the Standing Committee, held Nov. 7, 18S9, on 
motion of Winslow Warkex, Esq., it was — 

Voted, That a committee of three, of whom the President should 
be chairman, be appointed, with full powers to select a proper person 
to edit a new edition of the Memorial Volume of the Massachusetts 
.Society of the Cincinnati, and to make arrangements for the 
publication of the same. 



iCommittcc on publication. 

Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Chairman. 
Winslow Warren, Esq. 
Alexander Williams, Esq. 



PREFACE. 



TN accordance with the vote of the Society, this book 
has been prepared in substantially the same style 
as that of the volume published in 1S73, of which Mr. 
Francis S. Drake was the author. Some new and 
interesting matter has been introduced into the his- 
torical sketch of the General Society and the annals 
of the Massachusetts Society ; the biographical no- 
tices have been carefully revised, and in many instan- 
ces enlarged by the use of new material furnished by 
the present members, or gathered from the files of the 
Pension Office and from recent historical and genea- 
logical publications. The memoir of General Knox, 
to which much space was given in the former publi- 
cation, has now been condensed and placed in the 
alphabetical list. 

The portraits of original and hereditary members 
of which the larger number were specially engraved 
for this volume by Mr. F. T. Stuart, add much to the 
interest and value of the work. The portrait of 
Washington, selected for the frontispiece, is from the 
painting by Edward Savage for Harvard University. 
The original may be seen on the south wall of the 



dining-hall in the Memorial Building. In sitting for 
this portrait Washington wore the " Order of the Cin- 
cinnati;" and it is the only portrait of him from life in 
which the badge appears.^ 

In this connection it is proper to state that the 
portrait of Mr. Cobb, President of the Massachusetts 
Society, was furnished upon the special request of the 
Standing Committee ; and that the portrait of Mr. 
Fish, President of the General Society, was furnished 
upon the request of the Publication Committee. 

A statement in regard to the discrepancies in the 
various lists of original members which have been 
printed from time to time, will be found in the Appen- 
dix. It appears that the autograph list of original 
members contains the names of three hundred and 
twenty commissioned officers, of whom seventeen did 
not contribute their month's pay to the principal fund; 

1 The originality of the painting is established by the following entries 
in Washington's diary : — 

"■Monday, 21st [Dec. 1789]. Sat from ten to one o'clk for a Mr. Savage 
to draw my portrait for the University of Cambridge in the State of 
Massachusetts, at the request of the President and Governors of the said 
University. 

''Monday, 2S Sat all the forenoon for Mr Savage, who was taking my 
portrait. 

" Wednesday, 6fh [Jan. 1790]. Sat from half after S o"ck till 10 for the 
portrait-painter, Mr. Savage, to finish the picture of me which he had 
begun for the University of Cambridge." 

At a meeting of the Overseers of the College, Aug. 30, 1791, it was 
voted that the thanks of the Corporation be given to Mr. Savage for the 
portrait of tlie President of the United States, " taken by him from the 
life." 

The Cincinnati badsje shown in the picture is said to be in the Ben: 
Perlev Poore Collection. 



and that twenty-two other officers, who did make the 
requisite contribution, neglected to add their names to 
the list. The list of " Past and Present Members " 
(pp. xv-xxxviii), and the " Biographical Sketches " con- 
tain, with one exception,^ the names of all those who 
appear on the original roll, and also of all those who 
contributed to the principal fund but did not sign the 
roll. In this way the list of original members is made 
to include three hundred and forty-one names. The 
whole number of persons admitted as hereditary mem- 
bers (including the admissions July 4, 1890) is two 
hundred and sixty-nine. Four original members of 
other State societies acquired membership in the Mas- 
sachusetts Society by right of residence, and all of 
them have had successors. Eight persons, descendants 
of Revolutionary officers, have become members under 
the rule of 1854, by contributing to the principal 
fund ; and three persons have been chosen honorary 
members. The whole number of members, since the 
organization in 1783, is six hundred and twenty-five. 
There have been elected at different times, as heredi- 
tary members, twenty-six persons (of whom eight are 
now living) who have failed to complete their mem- 
bership by signing the declaration as prescribed by 
the rules. 

In the admission of new members the Society has 
always pursued a wisely conservative course, following 
both in letter and spirit the provisions of the original 

' Nathaniel Donnell. who appears to have sisjned the Massachusetts 
roll by mistake, as he immediately afterward joined the New Jersey 
Society and contributed to its principal fund. 



Institution. The principal fund has been administered 
with singular ability and fidelity, and the income has 
furnished the means for relieving in a quiet and un- 
ostentatious way the necessities of many of the de- 
scendants of those who devoted their lives and their 
fortunes to the cause of " Liberty and Union." The 
patriotic and charitable jDurposes of the founders of 
the Institution have been amply fulfilled by the Massa- 
chusetts Society of the Cincinnati. 

Boston, October, 1890. 



LIST OF PORTRAITS. 



PAGE 

■ >/gENERAL WASHINGTON To face titUpage 

v/HON. HAMILTON FISH 3 

. 4 MAJOR-GENERAL STEUBEN 6 

- /captain JUDAH ALDEN 79 

y ADAMS BAILEY (Adm. 1S25) 85 

i' CAPTAIN LOUIS BAURY DE BELLERIVE 94 

. V ALFRED L. BAURY, D.D 97 

. V LIEUTENANT FREDERIC F. BAURY 99 

. V HON. JOHN BROOKS 115 

/ CAPTAIN HENRY BURBECK 124 

V LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DAVID COBB 136 

i HON. SAMUEL C. COBB 141 

4 LIEUTENANT EBENEZER DAVIS 159 

V HON. CHARLES STEWART DAVEIS 163 

■/ LIEUTENANT THOMAS EDWARDS ,Si 

. y HON. WILLIAM EUSTIS 1S5 

' i REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES H. DAVIS 192 

J MAJOR-GENERAL SILAS CASEY 212 

i CAPTAIN BENJAMIN GOULD 21S 

y JOHN HOMANS, M.D 250 

4 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM HULL 257 

A MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY J. HUNT 279 

-i COLONEL HENRY JACKSON 2SS 

i M.AJOR-GENERAL HENRY KNOX 297 

4. REAR-ADMIRAL HENRY K.THATCHER 315 

4 AMOS A. LAWRENCE 322 



Xll LIST (JF PUKTKAITS. 

PAGE 

• J CAPTAIN JOHN LILLIE 330 

• V MAJOR-GENEKAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN 333 

• J SAMUEL K. LOTHROP, D.D 345 

» ^ BRIGADIER-GENERAL FRANCIS W. PALFREY 375 

. V COLONEL TIMOTHY PICKERING 391 

. y HON. FRANKLIN PIERCE 395 

. J COLONEL JAMES W. SEVER 42S 

• /captain SAMUEL SHAW 432 

. V ROBERT G. SHAW 436 

. V FRANCIS G. SHAW 43S 

> V HON. CHARLES SUMNER 46S 

• ^ DAVID TOWNSEND, M.D 4S0 

• \ FREDERIC TUDOR 4S8 

. y JOHN COLLINS WARREN, M.D 501 

j JONATHAN MASON WARREN, M.D 503 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Past and Present Members xvii 

Historical Sketch of the General Society 3 

Annals of the Massachusetts Society 37 

Biographical Notices of Members •]^ 

Sppcntiii. 

Statement of Dr. William Eustis . 531 

Note on the Original Members of the Massachusetts 

Society 533 

Officers of the Massachusetts Society from 1783 to 

1890 542 

Act of Incorporation, 1806 .... 544 

By-J^aws and Rules of the Massachusetts Society . . 546 

Officers of the General Society from 1783 to 1890 . 549 

Rules and Regulations of the General Society. . . 551 
Members of the American Order of the Cincinnati 

IN France 553 



Index 559 



MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE 
CINCINNATI. 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. 



iHajsstacljujsettjai ^octet^ of tl)e Cincinnati. 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. 

Arraiti^cd Alphabetically and Successwnally. 

The names of original members are printed in black letter, and the sur- 
names are given in the form in which they appear on the original roll. The 
statement of rank appended is that on which those members contributed to 
the principal fund of the Society. The names set in, immediately following, are 
those of the successors to the original members, in the order of their suc- 
cession, with a statement of their relationship to the original member. Where 
the surnames of the successors are not the same as those of their predeces- 
sors, they are inserted again in their alphabetical position on a hue with the 
original members, but in italic capitals, to distinguish them from the others; 
and the name of the original member is added. Those marked with a star (*) 
do not appear on the Treasurer's Journal, although they are on the original 
autograph list. Those marked with a dagger (t) appear on the Journal, but 
not on the autograph list. The references ni the right-hand column are to 
the pages containing the biographical notices. 

Page 

SHjfiOt, StCpfjCn, Captain 77 

CHASE, STEPHEN ABBOTT, grandson, adtnitted 

1863 78 

CHASE, WILLIAM, grandson, adm. 1878 ... 78 

CH.ASE, FRANCIS, grandson, adm. 188.6 .... 78 

SIDlJOtt, JJOStai^, Ensign 78 

SlSamS, ?itKnrg, Surgeon 78 

ailfen, JUTiat), Captain 79 

ALDEN, SAMUEL, son, adm. 1875 80 

ALDEN, AMHERST A., grandson, adm. 1886 ... 80 
aUfn, Katljl. CCOlt, Captain .81 

aUcn, Koal),t Major . Si 

anus, JOtfjam, Lieutenant . Si 



XVlll MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Pace 

SlntirCtoS, 2HiUiam, Lieutenant 82 

armstronfl, Samuel, Lieutenant 82 

ARMSTRONG, SAMUEL, son, adm. iSii .... 83 
ARA'OLD. See Frost, Satnuel. 

^SJjlffi, ifHOSCB, Major 83 

Austin, JJOJjn, Lieutenant 83 

AUSTLN, I'HOMAS, brotiier, adm. 1792 84 

35atltS, SlBamS, Captain 84 

BAILEY, ADAMS, son, adm. 1825 85 

BAILEY, ADAMS, grandson, adm. i860 85 

BAILEY, WALTER LANG, great-grandson, adm. 1S79 86 

iSailCS, ILUtljCr, Captain 86 

BAILEY, CALVIN, brother, adm. 1824 87 

BAILEY, BERNARD CALVIN, nephew, adm. 1861 . 87 
BAILEY, SAMUEL DONNELL, grand-nephew, adm. 

1877 88 

iJaltOm, JOSrpfj, Lieutenant 88 

iJalHtoin, JctlUMjan, Colonel . 89 

BALDWIN, LUKE, son, adm. 1809 89 

JSallantinr, KlJCnCJCt, Surgeon's Mate 89 

JJallart, EJadUam ?l?uTJSOit, Major 89 

BALLARD, JOHN OSGOOD, son, adm. 1841 ... 90 

BALLARD, EDWARD, grandson, adm. 1855 ... 90 

iSancrOft, SamCS, Lieutenant 90 

BANCROFT, JAMES, son, adm. 1809 91 

BANCROFF, HENRY, son, adm. 1856 91 

iSarlOW, JOEl.t chaplain 91 

J3aSSCtt, UaraCijial), Lieutenant-Colonel 94 

IJaurs tit JJcllmbc, Houis, Captain 94 

BAURY, FREDERIC, son, adm. 1813 97 

BAURY, ALFRED LOUIS, son, adm. 1823. ... 97 
BAURY, FREDERIC FRANCIS, grandson, adm. 

1867 99 

JACKSON, ALFRED BAURY, great-grandson, adm. 

1888 100 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XIX 

Page 

^aVlitS, f^Otiiiaii, Lieutenant-Colonel loo 

BAYLIES, EDMUND, son, adm. 1857 102 

BAYLIES, EDMUND LINCOLN, great-grandson, 

adm. 1881 102 

B£Z£, CHARLES UPHAM. See Cogszvell, T/wmas. 

UenSOn, JJOSiftUa, Captain 103 

BINNEY, HORACE, adm. in 1796, as son of Dr. Bar- 
nabas, Orig. Mem. Penna. Society 103 

Clafet, IStltDarlt, Lieutenant 104 

BLAKE, ROBERT, son, adm. 1S09 104 

i3Iancl)art(, Soljii, Captain 104 

iSIO^QCt, ClalClJ,* Lieutenant 104 

390U)lrS, Malpij ?i^att, Lieutenant and Adjutant ... 104 

BOWLES, LUCIUS QUINTIUS CINCINNATUS, 

son, adm. 1814 106 

BOWLES, LEONARD CROCKER, son, adm. i860 . io6 

BOWLES, STEPHEN WALLACE, grandson, adm. 18S0 106 

iSoiUman, Samuel, Lieutenant 107 

JJraBfOClr, antrrcto.t Lieutenant 107 

BRADFORD, ROBERT FORBES, grand-nephew, adm. 

1880 108 

JUraTJfort, esamalicl, Colonel 109 

BRADFORD, ALDEN, son, adm. 1812 no 

BRADFORD, THOMAS GAMALIEL, grandson, adm. 

1859 HI 

BRADFORD, LAURENCE, gt.-grandson, adm. 1889 . in 

iJratlfOrft, Gamaliel, Lieutenant 112 

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, son, adm. 1824 .... 113 

BRADFORD, GAMALIEL, grandson, adm. 1852 . . 114 

JJratrfortJ, Motif rt, Captain 114 

Uramf)an, J)OSi)Ua, Lieutenant 115 

JSriflijam, ©Cfflin, Surgeon's Mate 115 

JJrOOfeS, JJOljn, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commandant ... 115 

BROOKS, ALEXANDER SCAMMELL, son, adm. 1825 120 
KEYES, ALEXANDER BROOKS, great-grandson, 

adm. 1869 120 



XX MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OP" THE CINCINNATI. 

Page 

iJrOton, "iBittntitV, Lieutenant 12 1 

BROWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM S. A., son, adm. 

184s 122 

33tOU)n, ©UlJCt,* Captain-Lieutenant 122 

BRYANT. See Mason, David, Jr. 

JJUfltJCt, 2SBtoarTr,t Lieutenant 122 

JiJUlIarXl, SlSa, Lieutenant 123 

BULLARD, JAMES, grand-nephew, adm. 1859 . . 123 
BULLOCK, FREDERICK PRESCOTT. See Prescott, 

Joseph. 

iSurlJCCfe, PKUrS, Captain 124 

BURBECK, WILLIAM HENRY, son, adm. 1S50 . . 127 

JSurnam, JoJjn, Major 127 

DOLAND, JOHN J., grandson, adm. 1872 . . . . 12S 

UUSSCg, Ksaialj,* Captain-Lieutenant ....... 129 

CJallfntrrr, %tA)\\, Captain-Lieutenant 129 

CALLENDER, JOHN, nepiiew, adm. 1802 .... 130 

CarlCton, JHOSCS, Lieutenant 130 

ffiarlCtOll, ©SflOOlJ,* Lieutenant 13° 

CASEY. See Goodalc, Nathan. 

(KaStaillfl, [JPCttr], Lieutenant 131 

CJjamlJcrs, fWattljCto, Cnptain 131 

djajJin, Samuel, Lieutenant . . . , 131 

CHASE. See Abbot, Stephen. 

Clap, CCalfft, Captain 132 

TRUMBULL, GEORGE CLAPP, grandson, adm. 

1873 132 

TRUMBULL, CHARLES PERKINS, grandson, adm. 

1S86 133 

<illap, J)OSl)Ua, Lieutenant 133 

CLAPP, JOEL, son, adm. 183S 134 

CLAPP, CHARLES BARNARD, grandson, adm. 1873 135 

CLARK, JOSEPH, Captain, transferred from Conn. Soc. 135 

CLARK, JOSEPH HILL, son, adm. 1816 .... 135 

CLARKE. SAMUEL C. See Hull, William. 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXI 

Page 

(KlagrS, Jletft:, Captain 136 

CLAYES, DANA, son, adm. 1844 136 

(J^Olll), ^<ltlitT, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commandant . . . 136 

COBB, SAMUEL CROCKER, grandson, adm. 1856 . 141 

etOflStoell, JBrijOmaS, Major 144 

BELL, CHARLES UPHAM, gt.-grandson, adm. 1876 . 145 

©OflStorll, amOS, Captain 146 

UPHAM, JOSEPH BADGER, gt.-grandson, adm. 1878 146 

(KOflSiDCll, Samuel, Lieutenant 147 

ConHD, CljOmaS ?1^0lIiS, Lieutenant . 147 

COOfe, HatJitl, Captain . 147 

COOK, HORATIO GATES, son, adm. 1824 ... 147 

COOycr, 12Kfe«tI, Captain 147 

Cooper, Samuel, Lieutenant and Adjutant 148 

COOPER, GEORGE HENRY, grandson, adm. 1889 . 148 
CRAIGIE, ANDREW, Apothecary-General, trans, from 

N. Y. Society 149 

FOSTER, ANDREW, grand nephew of Andrew Craigie, 

adm. 1875 150 

CJraue, Solju, Coionei 150 

Crane, JOljU, Regimental Surgeon 152 

CRANE, JOHN HUNTINGTON, son, adm. 1809 . 152 

CrOCfter, Soseplj, Captain 153 

CROCKER, SAMUEL MATHER, son, adm. 1804 . 153 
CROCKER, SAMUEL MATHER, grandson, adm. 

1855 153 

CROCKER, LEWIS CASS, great-grandson, adm. 1882 154 

errOtoleg, JFIOrcnCe, Lieutenant 154 

CUM MINGS, PRENTISS. See Hart, John. 

Gtusljinfi, Natljantel, Captain 155 

CUSljlUfl, i!ri)OmaS, Lieutenant 156 

liana, JJenj'amin, Lieutenant 156 

DANA, ISAAC, brother, adm. 1837 157 

DANA. BENJAMIN, nephew, adm. 1846 ..... 157 



XXU MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Page 

HaUfOrtf), 30Sl)Ua» Lieutenant 157 

DANFORTH, JOSHUA NOBLE, son, adm. 1843 . 158 

J3a«(tlS, S>apl)rtl), Captain :59 

iiai'lJg, .SamUtl, Major 159 

DAIVS, CHARLES HEA'RY. See Freeman, Constant. 

iBatlCS, lEiJCUCJCr, Lieutenant and Brigade Quartermaster . 159 

DAVEIS, CHARLES STEWART, son, adm. 1809 . 163 

DAVEIS, JOHN TAYLOR OILMAN, grandson, 1865 172 
HASKINS, DAVID GREENE, Jr., great-grandson, 

adm. 1876 172 

Paxils, JJamCS, Lieutenant 173 

iBabiS, JlOljn, Lieutenant and Adjutant 174 

DAVIS, WILLIAM P., son, adm. 1S19 174 

JStan, 213aalter,t Captain 174 

DEARBORN, HENRY, Colonel, trans, from N. H. 

Society 1 74 

DEARBORN, HENRY ALEXANDER SCAMMELL, 

son of Col. Henry, adm. 1832 176 

Mix, TSTatljan, Captain 177 

IBOtlflC, ILCtil, Lieutenant 177 

DO LAND, JOHN F. See Burnam, John. 

HOlIibCr, IJrtCC,* Captain 178 

UrCto, Sfti), Major 178 

DREW, SETH, son, adm. 1824 179 

DREW, CLEMENT, grandson, adm. 1854 .... 180 
DREW, GEORGE HENRY, great-grandson, adm. 

1890 180 

IBUfKcltl, SOt)n, Regimental Surgeon 180 

lEatOn, ISrniamtn, Lieutenant 181 

EATON, CHARLES MARVIN, great-grandson, adm. 

1873 181 

IStrtoarHS, SrijOmaS, Lieutenant and Judge Advocate . 181 

EDWARDS, JOHN, son, adm. 1839 182 

EDWARDS, CHARLES, grandson, adm. 1887 ... 183 

lEfllfStOn, ^jarial), Lieutenant and Paymaster .... 183 

IBmfrson, Wcftrmial), Captain 184 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXUl 

Page 

EMERSON, HENRY, son, adm. 1843 184 

EMERSON, NATHANIEL WHITTIER, grandson, 
adm. 1863 184 

Enters, 3iSjpJjraim, Captain 185 

lEUStiS, MliUiam, Hospital Surgeon ....... 185 

EUSTIS, WILLIAM, grand-nephew, adm. 1848 . . 187 

JSiJCrett, ^ElatCaJ), Lieutenant 187 

ISgSaJrtEaU, 21lllUam, Lieutenant 188 



jFclt, SOHatljaU, Captain 188 

FELT, OLIVER, son, adm. 1826 188 

jFfrnallr, EOiiian* Lieutenant-Colonel 189 

iFtnlCS, James lEHtoartlS fSutV, Regimental Surgeon 189 

JFt'nlefi, Samuel, Regimental Surgeon 190 

jFiSfe, JJOSepI), Regimental Surgeon 190 

FISKE, JOSEPH, son, adm. 1839 190 

iFIos^, lEtenejer, Ensign 191 

FOSTER, ANDREW. See Cmigk, Andrew. 

iFOSteC, 3£llBt)a, Ensign 191 

jFOSter, JKfjOmaS, Lieutenant 191 

JfOtoleS, JIOljU, Captain 191 

FOVVLE, JOHN, son, adm. 1824 192 

jFreeman, ^Constant, Captain-Lieutenant .192 

DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY, grandson, adm. 1843 . 192 
DAVIS CHARLES HENRY, great-grandson, adm. 

1880 201 

jFreeman, 3ri)omas Habts, Lieutenant 201 

jFvinfe, Samuel, Ensign 201 

jFl'OSt, Samuel, Captain 202 

ARNOLD, SAMUEL FROST, grandson, adm. 1833 . 202 

ARNOLD, LEONARD, grandson, adm. 1841 ... 203 

iFcotfjtuflljam, 13enjamin, Captain 203 

FROTHINGHAM, BENJAMIN, son, adm. 1826 . . 203 

iFrsf. iFtetrericlt, Ensign 204 

iFuUer, J)Ol)U, Captain 204 



XXIV MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETV UF THE CINCINNATI. 

Page 

eSautrnrr, Sawts, Captain 204 

eSarrrtt, ^ntrrcU), Lieutenant 205 

CJrCOVflC, JJOljll, Captain-Lieutenant 205 

O'BRIEN, EDWARD KAVANAGH, grandson, adm. 

1880 206 

(jSiDtJS, ffialEi), Major 207 

GILBS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, son, adm. 1819. 207 

ffiCHJCl't, iUcnjamin, Lieutenant 207 

CSOOtialC, Watl)aU,t Captain 207 

GOOD ALE, LINCOLN, son, adm. 1830 211 

CASEY, SILAS, grandson of Captain Goodale, adm. 

1870 212 

CASEY, THOMAS LINCOLN, great-grandson, adm. 

1882 216 

eSooTJtoin, jFraiuis He Uaron, Surgeon's Mate . . 218 

GOULD, BENJAMIN APTHORP, adm. in 1864 

under the rule of 1854 218 

eirrfaton, SOi)n, Brigadier-General 223 

CSrraton, SoJjn 2iaijccIU)rtsljt, Ensign 224 

CSi'faton, a^ttljartr ?i(,?umpJji-c», Ensign 225 

CErecn, iFtantis, Captain . . . 225 

GREENE, BENJAMIN HENDERSON, son, adm. 

1853 225 

GREENE, GEORGE FRANCIS, grandson, adm. 1889 226 
GREENE, HORACE, adm. in 1858 under the rule of 

1854 226 

^rCCnlCaf, SSJilliam, Lieutenant 227 

GREENLEAF, SAMUEL, son, adm. 1834 .... 228 

®fritlICg, SOtjn, Captain-Lieutenant ........ 228 

P^all, SJamrS, Lieutenant 228 

HALL, GEORGE, son, adm. 1848 ....... 229 

HALL, JAMES, grandson, adm. 1855 229 

HALL, GEORGE WINSLOW, great-grandson, adm. 

1887 230 

?l^amUn, Africa, Ensign 230 



FAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXV 

Page 

PERRY, ANDREW POLADORE, great-grandson, adm. 

1S72 230 

Ji^ancocfe, iSrldjcr,* Captain 231 

HANCOCK, HENRY KILLAM, son, adm. 1S39 . . 231 

^aVt, 30i}n, Regimental Surgeon .231 

HART, SAMUEL, son, adm. 1842 ....... 233 

CUMMINGS, PRENTISS, great-grandson, adm. 18S0 234 

pjartsljorn, JTJjomas, Captain 234 

fi^at'Otn, lEUsIja, Captain-Lieutenant 235 

fkfas'ktn, ISlnatijan, Captain 235 

|i?aSfecU, JlOnatljan, Lieutenant 236 

HASKINS, DAVID GREENE, Jr. iae Davis, Ebeneser. 

?i^aStinjJS, JOi)n, Captain 236 

HASTINGS, EDMUND TROWBRIDGE, son, adm. 

1839 236 

HASTINGS, EDMUND TROWBRIDGE, grandson, 

adm. 1863 237 

HASTINGS, EDMUND TROWBRIDGE, gt.-grandson, 

adm. 18S5 237 

?i^Catl), SkilUam.t Major-General 237 

HEATH, WILLIAM SAMUEL, grandson, adm. 1S44 241 

J^cfitooolr, JJciilamin, Captain 241 

HEYWOOD, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, son, adm. 

1858 242 

HEYWOOD, JOHN GREEN, grandson, adm. 1871 . 243 

?l^tlftCEtl), aaitlliam, Lieutenant . 243 

fkfUXy Jtrcmiai), Lieutenant 243 

|£|lltTJS, JSartlEtt,* Captain-Lieutenant 244 

^tta)tll, JJdijtt, Lieutenant and Inspector of Music . . 244 

?i^Ol)i)g, SOJ)Jl, Captain 244 

HODGE. See Thachcr, Dr. James. 

ti^OlfiCOOft, BatJitr, Captain 244 

Ji^Oltlfn, Slai'On.t Captain 245 

ll^OltTflt, ^IJCl, Captain 245 

J^OlTTflt, Soijn, Lieutenant 246 

HOLDEN, EDGAR, grandson, adm. 1888 .... 247 



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%}OUitn, ILtti, Lieutenant 247 

JifOUanti, Ktiorg, Lieutenant 248 

fLfOllantl, }3ai*fe, Lieutenant 248 

HOLLAND, CHARLES TURNER, son, adm. 1862 . 250 

f^OllinttV, iJCSSf, Captain 250 

?1^0manS, SOljn,* Surgeon 250 

HUMANS, JOHN, son, adm. 1840 252 

HUMANS, CHARLES DUDLEY, grandson, adm. 

1869 253 

HUMANS, JUHN, great-grandson, adm. 1887 ... 254 

^OOktV, ZiiJeon, Lieutenant 255 

HOOKER, ZIBEON, son, adm. 1841 255 

fi}OttOn, 2£liSlja, Ensign 256 

fLfoiinin, JWidjacl dSafivitl, Captain 256 

J^oiat, Micljarft Surcomfi, Ensign . 256 

HOWE, THOMAS, brotlier, adm. 1803 256 

HOWE, RICHARD SURCOMB", neplievv, adm. 1825 256 

HOWE, THOMAS, nepliew, adm. 1828 256 

li^tlll, SMilUam, Lieutenant-Colonel 257 

CLARKE, SAMUEL CLARKE, grandson, adm. 1873 270 

flaunt, ISpftraim, Lieutenant 270 

HUNT, LEWIS CASS, grand-nepliew, elected 1883, 

placed on rolls 1890 271 

fi^Unt, 3ri)0maB, Captain 275 

HUNT, HENRY JACKSON, grandson, adm. 1867 . 279 

li^Urtl, JOljn [Jr.], Ensign 283 

KnflCrSOlI, dSeOVQt, Lieutenant 283 

INGERSOLL, GEORGE GOLDTHWAIT, son, adm. 

1818 283 

JACKSON, ALFRED BAURY. See Baury dc Belkrive. 

Jacfeson, Stmasa, Ensign 284 

SatftSOn, CEljarlCS, Ensign 284 

JACKSON, CHARLES E., grand-nephew, adm. 1890 284 

SaCfeSOn, IBanirl, Lieutenant 285 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXVU 

Pace 

JACKSON, DANIEL, son, adm. 1834 286 

JACKSON, FRANCIS, grandson, adm. 1870 . . . 286 

SlatfeBOU, 7Biitnt}tV, Lieutenant 287 

JACKSON, EBENEZER, son, adm. 1857 287 

JaCfeSOn, f^tntS, Colonel 288 

JACKSON, EDWARD, nephew, adm. 1S09 . . . . 2S9 
JACKSON, JOSEPH HENRY (afterward took the 

name of Thayer), grand-nephew, adm. 1826 . . . 290 

JatfeBon, Jtticl)ael, Coionei 290 

JncfeSOn, JHt'djacl [Jl*.],* Lieutenant 292 

JatbSOIl, Simon, Captain 292 

Satfeson, i!rJ)omas, c.iptain 292 

JACKSON, THOMAS, son, adm. 1802 293 

JcffcrtS, Samuel, Lieutenant 293 

JOljnStOn, 3)01)11,* Captain 293 

SOREN, JOHN JOHNSTON, grandson, adm. 1840 . 294 
JONES, WILLIAM FREDERICK. See Moor, William. 

KEYES, ALEXANDER BROOKS. '&t^ Brooks, John. 

BlUam, SOSCpf), Captain 295 

ISinjJ, ZclJUlOU, Captain 295 

Unap, JWO.SCS, Major, 295 

KNAPP, HIRAM, son, adm. 1857 , 296 

KNAPP, GILBERT CLARK, grandson, adm. 1S66 . 296 

ItnOtolfS, <Jlf)arlCS, Captain-Lieutenant 296 

Bnop, ?^fnrfi, Major-Ceneral 297 

TH.\TCHER, HENRY KNOX, grandson, adm. 1843 315 

SIKES, HENRY KNOX, great-grandson, adm. 1883 321 

aarncti, Simon, Captain 321 

aaualjton, JUaiilliam, Surgeon's Mate 322 

LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS, adm. in 1863. under 

the rule of 1854 322 

LAWRENCE, AMORY APPLETON, son, adm. 1888 327 
LA WTON, CHARLES O TIS. See Ripley, Hezekiah. 

fLfaiJCntDOrtJ), Watljaniel, Surgeon's Mate 327 



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act, Hanifl, Captain 327 

Ecc, SMiUiam MasmonK, Colonel 328 

LEE, WILLIAM RAYMOND, grandson, adm. in 

1867 328 

arlana, SOSCpl), Lieutenant 329 

LELAND, JOSEPH WARREN, son, adm. 1852 . . 329 

JLCOnartr, S«1C0t), Ensign 330 

JLilUt, JJOljn, Captain 330 

LILLIE, JOHN, son, adm. 181 2 332 

LILLIE, DANIEL CAMPBELL, grandson, adm. 1855 332 

iliUCOln, JUenjamin, Major-General 233 

LINCOLN, THEODORE, grandson, adm. 1854 . . 342 

LINCOLN, BENJAMIN, great-grandson, adm. 1867 . 343 

ILintOlU, ilUfUS,t Captain 343 

LINCOLN, RUFUS, son, adm. 1856 344 

UlStocU, SOtjn, Lieutenant 344 

aOCUtaJOOTr, aSIilUam, Chaplain 344 

ILOVtr, Scrcmialj, Ensign 344 

LOTHROP, SAMUEL KIRKLAND, adm. in 1868, un- 
der the rule of 1854 345 

LOTHROP, THORNTON KIRKLAND, son, adm. 

1888 347 

Hollfll, nanus, Lieutenant 347 

LOVELL, MANSFIELD, grand-nephew, adm. 1854 . 348 

LOVELL, JOSEPH PLYMPTON, great-grand-nephew, 

adm. 1885 350 

IfLunt, Daniel, Captain 350 

Unman, (Cornelius, Ensign 350 

LYMAN, JAMES WILKINSON, son, adm. 1818 . . 351 

LYMAN, WILLIAM, nephew, adm. 1822 .... 351 

fttCCCan, ZBantCl, Ensign 351 

JWtlSentirn, 213IlUiam, Lieutenant 351 

McKENDRY, GEORGE ALBERT, gt.-grand-nephew, 

adm. 1859 352 

PtartlE, ?i^fnri), Lieutenant 352 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXIX 

Page 

iHaSOn, ZBabttr, Jr., Lieutenant 352 

BRYANT, JOHN, nephew, adm. 1S02 352 

BRYANT, HENRY, grand-nephew, elected 1865, 

placed on rolls, 1890 353 

BRYANT, JOHN, great-grand-nephew, adm. 1S90 . . 354 

MASON, JAMES MEANS. See Means, James. 

JHaptofll, ?i^Ufli), Lieutenant-Colonel 354 

MAXWELL, HUGH, son, adm. 1826 355 

MAXWELL, WILLIAM MUNROE, grandson, adm. 

'872 355 

JWagnart, JOijll, Lieutenant and Quartermaster . • • 355 

JWaunartJ, Jonatljan, Captain 356 

ittagnarti, 213aiIUam, Captain 356 

MAYNARD, JOHN, son, adm. 1804 357 

MAYNARD, CORNELIUS DURANT, grandson, adm. 

1839 357 

JWcanS, James, Captain - 35 7 

MASON, JAMES MEANS, grandson, adm. 1846 . . 357 

MASON, JAMES MEANS, great-grandson, adm. 18S9 357 

SWClltSJ), ^Samuel, Lieutenant 357 

iWtllCr, Jcrcim'ai), Captain 358 

JWl'Ucr, JOSrpi), Lieutenant • • • 358 

JHlUS, JOljn, Captain 358 

fWillS, Effill'lHam, Captain 358 

JtlOOCfS, J3fnjam(n,t Lieutenant 359 

MOORE, JOHN W., grandson, adm. 1878 .... 360 

JWOOr, fflaaflltam. Lieutenant 362 

JONES, WILLIAM FREDERICK, greatgrand-nephew, 

adm. 1884 362 

JttOOrr, aSSlIltant, Captain 363 

JWorflan, JScnj'amilt, Surgeon's Mate - ■ Z^i 

iHSorn'U, a[mOS,t Major 363 

fWortOn, Silas, Lieutenant 364 

MOSELEY, EDWARD STRONG, adm. in 1867, under 

the rule of 1854 364 

if^Dritfe, Samuel, Lieutenant 367 



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tPCaSOn, 'NatljaniCi, Lieutenant and Quartermaster . . 367 

NrlSOU, p?enrs, Lieutenant 367 

NELSON, HENRY WELLS. See Wells, James. 

TjCctofjallj.lEjra, Lieutenant-Colonel 367 

NEWHALL, THOMAS, son, adm. 1802 368 

tS^Tctoman, Samuel, Lieutenant 369 

NEWMAN, HENRY, brother, adm. 1S02 .... 369 

NEWMAN, HENRY, nephew, adm. 1813 .... 369 

tUfid) Olson, SamUfI, Captain in the Navy 369 

NICHOLSON, JAMES WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 

grandson, adm. 1875 370 

tlSriFOn, 3ri)0maS, Colonel 371 

NIXON, THOM.AS, son, adm. 1802 372 

NIXON, WARREN, grandson, adm. 1843 .... 372 

NIXON, MARCELLUS, great-grandson, adm. 1874 . 373 

tCCortJ), saaiUiam, Captain 373 

O'BRIEN, EDWARD KAVANAGH. See George, John. 

<©liDcr, aiCpantlCr, Ensign 374 

©liiJCr, JiOlJCrt, Major 374 

PALFREY, FRANCIS WINTHROP, adm. in 1S75, un- 
der the rule of 1854 375 

PALFREY, JOHN CARVER, brother, adm. 1890 . 378 

JIaCtlCC, SlarOn, Lieutenant 379 

IDarttcr, JSrnjamin, Lieutenant 379 

J^arfetr, JSliaS, Lieutenant 3S0 

PARKER, ISAAC, brother, adm. 1830 380 

PARKER, EDWARD WILLIAM, nephew, adm. 1831 381 

PatCrSOn, JOtjn, Brigadler-Oeneral 381 

PcalJOtID, lEiJCnCJCr,* Lieutenant 382 

J^CirCe, JJOljn, Captain-Lieutenant 383 

PEIRCE. JOSEPH, brother, adm. 1808 3S3 

PEIRCE, HENRY AUGUSTUS, grand-nephew, adm. 

1856 38s 

Pcirte, Silas, Captain 3S6 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXXI 

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J^erUins, ffimiUiam, Major 386 

PERKINS, SAMUEL, son, adm. 1S04 387 

PERKINS WILLIAM, grandson, adm. 1847 ... 388 

PERKINS, JOHN WARREN, grandson, adm. 1888 . 389 
PERRY, ANDREW FOLADORE. See Hamlin, Africa. 

JfJctcrS, ^ntrUCiU, Lleutenant-Colonel 389 

PETERS, LOVETT, son, adm. 1824 ...... 390 

PETERS, JOHN LOVETT, great-grandson, adm. 1866 390 

i^CttCltfltU, SOSeplj, Major 390 

|)l)ClOn, JETJtoartJ, Lieutenant 391 

J^ljClOU, JOf)n,t Lieutenant 391 

l^ijClOn, IJatritfe, Lieutenant 391 

PICKERING, TIMOTHY, Colonel, transferred from 

Pennsylvania Society 391 

PICKERING, JOHN, son, adm. 1S43 393 

PICKERING, JOHN, grandson, adm. 1867 .... 394 

PICKERING, JOHN, great-grandson, adm. 18S7 . . 394 

J^ifrCC, Jitnj'amtn, Lieutenant 394 

PIERCE, BENJAMIN KENDRICK, son, adm. 1841 395 

PIERCE, FRANKLIN, son, adm. 1852 395 

PIERCE, HENRY DEARBORN, son, adm. 1873 . . 396 

PIERCE, KIRK DEARBORN, grandson, adm. 1889 396 

PIERCE, JOSIAII, adm. in 1859, under the rule of 1854 397 

Pifef, i3tnlamin, Captain 398 

J^OJpr, KsaaC, Major 398 

POPE, IVORY HOVEY, grandson, adm. 1888 ... 400 

^Opi^tn, SO'i)n, Lieutenant-Colonel 400 

POPKIN, JOHN SNELLING, son, adm. 1827 ... 401 

potter, JJcnJamin JOntS, Surgeon's Mate .... 401 

Pratt, 3fiti, Lieutenant 402 

PR.ATT, JOEL, son, adm. 1S45 . 402 

Prag, UOljn,* Captain 402 

PREBLE, WILLIAM PITT, Jr. See Tucker, Joseph. 

PrCSCOtt, 30SCl)l),t Hospital Mate 402 

BULLOCK, FREDERICK PRESCOTT, great-grand- 
son, adm. 1877 403 



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Pagb 

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING, adm. in 1S45 as 

an honorary member 404 

price, SSlilHam,* Lieutenant 404 

IJUtnam, jatlfUS, Brigadier-General 404 

iJantJall, JPljomas, Captain 408 

BaUJSOn, IJrtlltJjan, Ensign 409 

Heal), C5f0rBC,t Lieutenant 409 

J^Cmitij, JCimOtfJS, Captain 409 

REMICK, OTIS, great-grandson, adm. i8go . . . 410 

MtCC, WatijaU, Major 412 

RICE, NATHAN, son, adm. 1849 413 

RICE, NATHAN PAYSON, grandson, adm. 1852 . 413 

KlCC, ©UiJrr, Lieutenant 414 

JJiCljavtlSOn, Sltijal), Regimental Surgeon 414 

RICHARDSON, HORACE, grandson, adm. 1S45 . . 415 
RICHARDSON, GEORGE DRAPER, great-grandson, 

adm. 1857 415 

KlCfeacTr, aSailliam, Lieutenant 416 

MiplCS, ?l^CJffeiai), Lieutenant 416 

RIPLEY, JOSEPH TILDEN, son, adm. 1843 . . . 416 
ROBBINS, NATHAN BACON, Jr., grandson, adm. 

1858 417 

ROBBINS, KENELM, grandson, adm. 1863 . . 417 

LAWTON, CHARLES OTIS, gt.-grandson, adm. 1879 417 

ilOtJCrtS, MiCfjartJ JJrOOftf,* Captain 417 

ROBBINS. See Ripley, Hezckiah. 

JJOttSC, ®Ut)fr,t Captain 417 

Motor, JOijlT, Ensign 418 

Sampson, (JTrOtfeCr, Lieutenant 418 

Savocnt, asaintljrop. Captain 419 

SARGENT, GEORCrE WASHINGTON, son, adm. 

1835 420 

SARGENT, IGNATIUS, great-grandson, adm. i8S8 . 421 

.SattcrUf, JSSSilUam.t Major 421 



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cSaiJflflt, ^tni'S, Lieutenant 422 

SabaflC, SOSepl), Captain 423 

SAVAGE, CHARLES TYLER, son, adm. 1822 . . 423 
SAVAGE, WILLIAM HENRY, grandson, adm. in 

1881 423 

<Satosfi% Sanies, Ensign 424 

SAWYER, HORACE BUCKLIN, son, adm. 1852 . 425 
SAWYER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, grandson, adm. 

1862 426 

ScammtU, <^amurl ILfsUf, Ensign 427 

Scott, 3amtH, Ensign 427 

SelUcn, CJjaCleS, Lieutenant 427 

.SctJEC, James, Ensign 427 

SEVER, JAMES WARREN, son, adm. 1S47 • • . 428 
SEVER, WINSLOW WARREN, grand-nepliew, adm. 

1871 430 

Setoall, f^tnVS, Captain 430 

SctoaClf, iirJjOniaS, Captain 431 

SEWARD, THOMAS, son, adm. 1802 432 

SEWARD, RICHARD THOMPSON, grandson, adm. 

i^'^rs 432 

<Sl)ato, Samuel, Captain 432 

SHAW, WILLIAM, brother, adm. 1800 436 

SHAW, ROBERT GOULD, nepliew, adm. 1812 . . 436 
SHAW, FRANCIS GEORGE, grand-nephew, adm. 

1858 438 

SHAW, GEORGE RUSSELL, great-grand-nephew, 

adm. 1884 440 

SljepaClf, 3imiUfam,t Colonel 440 

SHEPARD, NOAH, son, adm. 1832 449 

Sljepar^, mmiiam, Ensign 449 

WETMORE, GEORGE PEABODY, grand-nephew, 

adm. 1877 450 

Sf)Ute, ISaniel, Regimental Surgeon 450 

SHUTE, DANIEL, grandson, adm. 1852 450 

S/A'jES, HENR V KNOX. See Knox, Henry. 



XXXIV MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Pace 

Smitij, 3Et)tnfjtr, Captain 451 

SMITH, DAVID, son, adm. 1846 451 

SMITH, ALFRED ETHELBERT, great-grandson, 

adm. 1885 452 

Smitij, lEljenfJCr, Captain 4S3 

.Smiti), 30i)n IKtllJS, Captain 453 

SMITH, HENRY, son, adm. 1S46 454 

SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, grandson, adm. 1S81 . 454 

Smitlj, JOStpl), Lieutenant 4SS 

Smitt), JOBial), Lieutenant 455 

<Smitl), SilbanUS, Captain 4S5 

SnUti), Simeon, Captain 456 

so REN, JOHN JOHNSTON. See Johnston, John. 

SpVinS, Simeon, Lieutenant 45*^ 

Sprout, SSlJElUJEl', Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant . 456 

SPROUT, THOMAS, brother, adm. 1809 ... 45S 

SPROUT, EARLE, nephew, adm. 1843 458 

SPROAT, HENRY HAMILTON, grand-nephew, adm. 

i8So 458 

StaCS, afflJilltam, Lieutenam-Colonel 458 

Stafford, %tj,\sXi m.. Ensign 460 

Stcbrns, ffifflltlliam. Captain 460 

StOCUrr, ISlientJCr, Lieutenant 460 

STOCKER, GEORGE W., son, adm. 1848 ... . 460 
STODDARD, JOHN THOMAS. See Thomas, Joseph. 

Stone, IJonatljan, Captain 461 

stone, KatJjani'el, Lieutenant 462 

stover, lEtJenejer, Lieutenant and Paymaster .... 462 

Storen, aiHiIliam, Captain 463 

STOREY, CHARLES WILLIAM, grandson, adm. 1846 463 

StOrS, SlOljn, Captain 464 

STORY, JOHN PATTEN, great-grand-nephew, adm. 

1887 465 

Sumner, 3a^, Major 466 

SUMNER, CHARLES PINCKNEY, son, adm. 1803 467 

SUMNER, CHARLES, grandson, adm. 1840 ... 468 



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Page 

SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE, great-grand-nephew, adm. 

1890 470 

Stoan, etaltl), Ensign 471 

KaSlOV, ©tljntCl.t Captain 471 

JTaSlOr, ilTcrttUS, Lieutenant 471 

JTafilor, SMtlltam, Lieutenant and Quartermaster . . 472 

TAYLOR, WILLL\M, son, adm. 1841 472 

!!ri)aCf)Cl% James, Regimental Surgeon 472 

HODGE, J.\MES THACHER, grandson, adm. 1864 . 473 
HODGE, JOHN RUSSELL, great-grandson, adm. 

1875 474 

JTI^aCljer, ^atJjanid, Lieutenant 474 

THACHER, THOMAS, brother, elected 1812; placed 

on rolls 18 13 475 

THACHER, GEORGE McDONOGH, nephew, adm. 

1854 475 

THACHER, GEORGE VVASHLNiGTON, grand- 
nephew, adm. i860 476 

THACHER, CHARLES, grand-nephew, adm. 1865 . 476 
THATCHER, HENRY KNOX. See Knox, Henry. 
THA YER, JOSEPH HENR Y JACKSON. See Jackson, 
Henry. 

JCtJOmaS, SOi)n,t Regimental Surgeon 476 

JJTIjOmaiS, JJO.SCflt), Captain 477 

THOMAS, JOHN BOIES, nephew, adm. 1849 ... 477 
STODDARD, JOHN THOMAS, great-grand-nephew, 

adm. 1S62 477 

J!ri)0mp.S0n, iCfjatltrCttSS, Surgeon 477 

THOMPSON, CHARLES H., grandson, 'adm. 1873 • 47S 

iJClStialC, James, Captain 478 

JTorCCD, 2UlUiam, Lieutenant and Adjutant .... 478 

TORREY, WILLIAM, son, adm. 1846 479 

TORREY, WILLIAM, grandson, adm. 1874 .... 479 

^Torceg, 5129lUiam, Lieutenant 479 

JTOton, JJaCOiJ, Lieutenant 480 



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Pace 

SToUmsmU, 23al)itr, Hospital Surgeon 4S0 

TOWNSEND, DAVID S, son, adm. 1830 . . . . 4S2 
TOWNSEND, EDWARD DAVIS, grandson, adm. 

1S70 482 

JJTrca^UJtU, fffflUlU'am, Captain 483 

JTvrStOtt, acmUCl, Major 483 

iTrOttCV, SOlJll. Captain 484 

JJTrOUJlJritlflC, HUtljCr, Lieutenant 484 

TRUMBULL. See Clap, Caleb. 

iCUtfeCr, JJOBCpJ), Lieutenant and Paymaster .... 485 
PREBLE, WILLIAM PITT, grandson, adm. 1845 . 485 
C^UtlOl*, S21liUtani, Lieutenant-Colonel and Judge-Advo- 
cate-General 486 

TUDOR, WILLIAM, son. adm. 1820 487 

TUDOR, FREDERIC, son, adm. 1834 488 

TUDOR, FREDERIC, grandson, adm. 1874 ... 489 

SITupiJcc, JUrnjamtn, Coionei 4S9 

JTUJPJJtr, ^llSrllU, Lieutenant and Adjutant 490 

STurnrr, Jonatljan, Captain 491 

TURNER, PEREZ, grandson, adm. 1827 491 

TURNER, GEORGE HENRY, great-great-grandson, 

adm. 1885 491 

JTurncr, JHaiitrg, Lieutenant 491 

STUrurr, PClCfi,* Lieutenant 492 

JTurncr, S!ri)omas, Captain 492 

UPHAM, JOSEPH BADGER. See Cogswell, Amos. 

TJOSC, 2EItjai), Lieutenant-Colonel 492 

VOSE, ELIJAH, son, adm. 1822 493 

VOSE, HENRY, grandson, adm. i860 493 

VOSE, FRANCIS, grandson, adm. 1S70 493 

TJOSf, JJOSCpi), Colonel 493 

VOSE, ISAAC D., son, adm. 1816 494 

VOSE, RUFUS CHANDLER, grandson, adm. 1837 . 495 

VOSE, JAMES GARDINER, grandson, adm. 1865 . 495 



PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS. XXXVU 

Pace 

Vast, ^TijOniaS, Captain 496 

VOSE, THOMAS S., grandson, adm. 1S76 .... 497 

aSlaltS, 5)0BfPi)> Lieutenant 497 

2129alfeCl', lEtltoartl, Lieutenant and Paymaster ... 497 

fSIalfeCC, JiOficrt, Captain 49S 

SMartJtoCll, UOSCplj, Lieutenant 498 

WARDWELL, WILLIAM H., grandson, adm. 1S57 . 498 

JEiBarrcn:, ^UriCl, Lieutenant 499 

S^aarrcn, JantfS, JJr., Lieutenant in the Navy ... 499 

WARREN, HENRY, brother, adm. 1825 500 

WARREN, WINSLOW, nephew, adm. 1829 .... 500 

WARREN, WINSLOW, grand-nepliew, adm. 1870 . . 500 

SUacrEn, JJOljn, Lieutenant 501 

WARREN, JOHN COLLINS, admitted as honorary mem- 
ber in 1847; as regular member in 1S54, under rule 

of that year 501 

WARREN JONATHAN MASON, son, adm. 1863 . 503 

WARREN, JOHN COLLINS, grandson, adm. 1871 . 503 

2!23atson, JIHilHam, Captain 503 

fflSaattlCS, JHaSOn, Captain 504 

JEJUcfii), CSCOrflC, Captain 504 

JEJUcfilJCr, ilanttl, Lieutenant 504 

WEBSTER, DANIEL, adm. in 185 1, as an honorary 

member 504 

SaacIliltfltOn, ISllBlja, Lieutenant 504 

WELLINGTON, ELISHA, son, adm. 1804 .... 504 

JESacHS, JJfnj'anrin, Lieutenant 505 

JMCUS, JJamrS, Lieutenant 505 

WELLS, REV. ELEAZER MATHER PORTER, son, 

adm. 1829 505 

NELSON, HENRY WELLS, grandson, adm. 1890 . 507 

ffiSacllS, JEljOmaS, Captain 50S 

WELLS, SAMUEL ADAMS, son, adm. 1808 ... 508 

SMCSSOIt, SaWfS, Colonel 509 

WETMORE, GEORGE PEABODY. See Shepani, 
Willi a m (Ensign). 



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aSllljitC, lEBtoaVll, Lieutenant 509 

JMIjltC, fL^affitlti, Captain 510 

SMJjitina, JOftn, Lieutenant 510 

■ WHrriNG, \VILLL\M DANFORTH, grandson, adm. 

1877 512 

212ai){tlMfU, Samuel, Surgeon 513 

WHirWELL, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, grandson, 

adm. 1889 513 

WanUy IB'btmitV, Lieutenant 514 

WILD, EBENEZER, son, adm. 1814 515 

WILD, CHARLES TIDD, grandson, adm. 1871 . 515 

SBilUams, auraljam, Captain 515 

2i21IllIiam.S, lB\}t\U}n\ Lieutenant 516 

eUilUamS, SOlJ«> Captain 516 

WILLIAMS, JOHN, son, adm. 1826 517 

EaailHamS, SOBfpl), Captain 517 

WILLIAMS, HENRY HOWELL, Jr., grand-nephew, 

adm. 1S26 517 

SlSDtlltatniS, KottCt, Lieutenant and Paymaster ... 518 

WILLIAMS, ROBERT PEARCE, son, adm. 1837 . 521 

WILLIAMS, .ALEXANDER, grandson, adm. 1862 . 522 

ffiJHtnfl, 5)onatijan, Ensign 523 

fJHillSlOto, JJOljn, Captain 523 

WINSLOW, JOHN, son, adm. 1822 524 

WINSLOW, CHARLES HENRY, great-grandson, 

adm. 1870 525 

WINSLOW, JOHN EDW.A.RD, great-great-grandson, 

adm. 1889 525 

WOLCOTT, JOSHUA HUNTINGTON, adm. in 1876, 

under the rule of 1854 526 

aSJOOTltliTroC, (J^ljn'St01)l)Cr, Captain 527 

gUaOOTHUartr, Samuel, Surgeon's Mate 527 

¥eOmanS, JOljn, Lieutenant 528 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 

JULY 4, 1890. 



1SS6. 
1841. 
1877. 
1879- 
1881. 
1876. 



1890. 
1859. 
1877. 
1850. 
1882. 



1873- 

1873- 
1856. 



1882. 
1880. 

1880. 

1890. 
1873. 
1887. 
1863. 
1864. 



Alden, Amherst A. 

Arnold, Leonard . 

Bailey, Samuel D. 

Bailey, Walter L. 

Baylies, Edmund L. 

Bell, Charles Upham 

Bowles, Stephen W., M.D. 

Bradford, Gamaliel . . 

Bradford, Laurence . 

Bradford, Capt. Robert F. 

Bryant, John, M.D. . . . 

BuUard, James 

Bullock, F. Prescott . 

Burbeck, William H. . . 

Casey, Brig.-Gen. Thomas 

Lincoln, U. S. A. . . . 

Chase, Francis 

Clapp, Charles B. ... 
Clarke, Samuel C. . . . 
Cobb, Hon. Samuel C. . 
Cooper, Rear-Admiral Geo. 

H., U. S. N 

Crocker, Lewis C. ... 
Cummings, Prentiss . 
Davis, Commander Charles 
Henry, U. S. N. . . . 

Drew, George H 

Eaton, Charles M. . . . 
Edwards, Charles .... 
Emerson, Nathaniel W. 
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 

LL.D 

Greene, George F. . . . 



U. S. Post-OfSce, Boston. 

Somerville. 

Bath, Me. 

Calcutta, India. 

66 Wall St., New York, N. Y. 

Lawrence. 

Springfield. 

Cambridge. 

Duxbury. 

U. S. Navy. 

Cohasset. 

Sherborn. 

Kansas City, Mo. 

New London, Ct. 

Washington, D. C. 

Salem. 

Portland, Me. 

Marietta, Ga. 

235 Boylston St., Boston. 

88 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Allston. 

Brookline. 

Washington, D. C. 

10 Copeland Street, Roxbury. 

Wellesley Hills. 

Danforth St , Portland, Me. 

Union League Club, N. Y. City. 

Cambridge. 
Brookline. 



xl 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



1887. Hall, George Winslow . . 
1876. Haskins, David Greene, Jr. 

1873. Heywood, John G. . . . 

1888. Holden, Edgar, M.D. . . 

1887. Romans, John, M.D., 2d . 

1888. Jackson, Lieut. Alfred B. . 
1890. Jackson, Charles E. . 

1870. Jackson, Francis .... 

1854. Jones, William F. ... 
1869. Keyes, Capt. Alexander B. 
1888. Lawrence, Amory A. . . 

1879. Lawton, Charles O. . . . 
1867. Lee, William Raymond . 

1855. Lillie, Daniel C 

1867. Lincoln, Benjamin 

1 888. Lothrop, Thornton K. . . 
1885. Lovell, Joseph P 

1889. Mason, James Means 
1859. McKendry, George Albert . 
1878. Moore, Chief Engineer John 

W., U. S. N. . 

1867. Moseley, Edward S. 

1890. Nelson, Henry Well: 

1874. Nixon, Marcellus . 

1880. O'Brien, Edward K. 
1890. Palfrey, John C. . 

1888. Perkins, John W. 
1872. Perry, Andrew P. 
1866. Peters, John L. 

1887. Pickering, John . 
1859. Pierce, Josiah . . 

1889. Pierce, Kirk D. . 
1SS8. Pope, Ivory H. . 
1845. Preble. William Pitt 

1890. Remick, Otis . 
1857, Richardson, George D. 

1888. Sargent, Ignatius . 

1881. Savage, William H. 
1862. Sawyer, Paymaster Geo. A., 

u'. S. N 

187 1 . Sever, Rev. Winslow Warren 
1S75. Seward, Richard T. . . . 



D. 



Chelsea. 

83 Devonshire St., Boston. 

Worcester. 

Newark, N. J. 

184 Marlborough St., Boston. 

U. S. Army. 

Middletown, Ct. 

Lanesville. 

70 Columbia St., Dorchester. 

U. S. Army. 

68 Chauncy St., Boston. 

187 Warren Ave., Boston. 

135 Amory St., Jamaica Plain. 

North Easton. 

Dennysville, Me. 

8 Congress St.. Boston. 

112 Madison Ave., New York. 

Portland, Me. 

Westborough. 

Navy Yard, Mare-Island, Cal. 

Newbury port. 

Geneva, N. Y. 

Framingham. 

Thomaston, Me. 

Belmont. 

Portland, Me. 

Glenwood, Medford. 

Worcester. 

Salem. 

London, S. W. 

Hillsborough, N. H. 

U. S. Custom House, Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Colorado Springs, Col. 

Stoneham. 

Waquoit. Falmouth, 

Harvard. 

Washington, D. C. 
Central Falls. R. I. 
1389 Washington St.. Boston. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



xli 



1884. Shaw, George Russell 
1852. Shute, Daniel .... 
1883. Sikes, Henry Knox . . 

1885. Smith, Alfred E. . . . 
1881. Smith, William H. . . 
1880. Sproat, Henry Hamilton 
1862. Stoddard, John T. . , 
1846. Storey, Charles W. . . 
18S7. Story, Capt.JohnP.,U.S A 
1890. Sumner, Lieut-Col. Edwin V 
1874. Torrey, William . 

1870. Townsand, Brevet Maj.-Gen 

Edward D., U. S. A. . 

1SS6. Trumbull, Charles P. . 

1S74. Tudor, Frederic . . 

1885. Turner, (Jeorge H. . . 

1865. Vose, Rev. James G. 

1876. Vose, Thomas S. . . . 
1857. Wardwell, William H. . 

1 871. Warren. J. Collins, M.D. 
1S70. Warren, Winslow 

1877. Wetmore, George Peabody 
1877. Whiting, Commodore Wil- 
liam D.. U. S. N. . 

1S89. Whitvvell, Frederick A. 

1 87 1. Wild, Charles Tidd . 

1862. Williams, Ale.xander . 

1S89. Winslow, John E. . . 

1S76. Wolcott, J. Huntington 



113 Newbury St., Boston. 

South Hingham. 

Peoria, 111. 

Bronxville, N. Y. 

Raymond, Me. 

Freetown. 

Plymouth. 

Brookline. 

Washington, D. C. 

U. S. Army. 

Bath, Me. 

Washington, D. C. 

Beverly. 

28 Brimmer St , Boston. 

Norwell. 

Providence, R. I. 

Thomaston, Me. 

1743 Washington St., Boston. 

58 Beacon St., Boston. 

39 Court St., Boston. 

Newport, R. L 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

41 Tremont St., Boston. 

Chelsea. 

139 Newbury St., Boston. 

Cambridge. 

238 Beacon St., Boston. 



xlii 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



PERSONS ELECTED, ADMISSION NOT 
COMPLETED. 



Date 


°' Name. 


1787? 


*Tucker, Samuel . . 


1788. 


*Litligow, William 




*VVigo;leswortli, Edward 


1790. 


*Hunt, Abraham . . 


1S05. 


*Bates, Joseph . . . 


1816. 


*Greaton, Jolin . . 


1826. 


*Eustis, Gen. AbraJiam 


1828. 


*Peirce, Jos. Hardy, Jr. 


1828. 


*Parker, Edward . . 


1828. 


♦Lincoln, Theodore . 


1S29. 


*Vose, Thomas P. 


1838. 


*Reniick, Timothy 


1850. 


*Sawyer, James Lucius 


1855. 


*Lawrence, Abbott . 



Address. 

Captain Revolutionary navy. 
Major Revolutionary army. 
Colonel " 

Captain " " 

grandson of Gen. John. 

nephew of Gov. William. 

son of Joseph. 

of New York, son of Lieut. Elias. 

son of Gen. Benjamin. 

son of Capt. Thomas. 

of Cornish, Me., son of Capt. 

Timothy, 
son of Ensign James, 
son of Major Samuel, 
son of Surgeon J. B. Swett. 
son of Ensign Africa, 
of Berwick, Me., eldest son of Lieut. 

Nathaniel, 
grand-nephew of Capt. Joseph, 
grand-nephew of Lieut. Benjamin, 
great-grandson of Lieut. Ebenezer. 
grandson of Major John Burnam. 
grand-nephew of Lieut. Samuel, 
son of Admiral James W. A., and 

great-grandson of Capt. .Samuel, 
grand-nephew of Joseph W Leiand. 
great-grandson of Capt.-Lieut. John 

Johnston, 
great-grandson of Lieut. Park 

Holland. 

Note. — Henry 1>. Thomas of Washingtun was elected a member in 1SS5, to 
succeed his grandfather, Dr. John Thomas ; but it afterward appeared that he 
had been elected at the same time a member of the New York State Society, 
and being a resident of that State, had properly chosen to accept membershii) 
there. 



1873- 
1876. 
1879. 
1885. 



*Swett, Samuel 
*Hamlin, Poladore 
*Nason, L. Q. C. . 

*William, Henry Howell 
Dana, Benjamin . . 
Jackson, Arthur H. . 
Burnham, John W. . 
Newman, Wm. H. H. . 
Nicholson, Wm. H. D. . 



I 8S9. Richardson, Wm. K. 
1890. Soren, George Wales 

1S90. Eaton, Wm. Lutlier . 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



THE formation of the Society of the Cincinnati was the 
natural result of a desire on the part of the officers who 
had served together in the War of the Revolution " to per- 
petuate the remembrance of the achievement of national in- 
dependence, as well as the mutual friendships which had 
been formed under the pressure of common danger." It 
appears from an entry in Jefferson's diary (March i6, 1788), 
that Knox, in a conversation with Adams as early as 1776, 
expressed a " wish for some ribbon to wear in his hat or 
in his button-hole, to be transmitted to his descendants as 
a badge and a proof that he had fought in defence of 
their liberties. He spoke of it in such precise terms as 
showed that he had revolved it in his mind before." 

Dr. William Eustis, of Boston, who was on intimate terms 
with many of the prominent officers in the American army, 
and who took an active part in the organization of the Society 
of the Cincinnati, has left on record a statement^ of "the first 
moving in the said Institution," so far as he was cognizant 
of it. He states that while the army was quartered at New 
Windsor and West Point, on the Hudson, in 1782, Captain 
Richmond of the Maryland line, then aide-de-camp to Major- 
General Gates, talked with him about the unhappiness of the 
coming separation, and suggested that the officers should 

' The statement will be found in tlie Appendix. 



4 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

meet in some central place and form a society to preserve 
the friendship which so stroni^ly subsisted between them. 
Captain Richmond, it appears, made a minute of his plan 
of organization, and gave it to Dr. Eustis to elaborate; but 
a few days afterward it was learned " that such a design was 
executing at West Point among the officers there ; and it was 
not long before the Proposals came out, from which were 
framed the articles which now make the Institution of the 
Society of the Cincinnati." 

The original copy of the Proposals referred to is in the 
handwriting of General Knox, and is now among the papers 
left by his grandson Admiral Thatcher, in the care of the 
New England Historic-Genealogical Society. It is entitled 
" Rough draft of a society to be formed by the American 
officers and to be called the Cincinnati," and is dated " West 
point, 15 April, 1783." ^ 

It is evident, from the statement made by Dr. Eustis, that 
the idea of forming some kind of an association bj' which the 
officers would be brought together from time to time after 
their retirement from active service was prevalent in the camp 
before Knox's " Proposals " took shape, and that the credit 
of originating the idea cannot be awarded with certainty to 
any individual ; but as Knox was the author of the " Pro- 
posals," which are in substance the same as the " Institution " 
afterward established, he deserves the title of FOUNDER OF 
THE Cincinnati. 

The disaffection existing in the winter of 1 782-1783 among 
all ranks in the army was widespread and menacing. A com- 
mittee of officers, of which Major-General McDougall was 
the head, waited upon the grand committee of Congress, and 
represented that without an immediate payment of some part 
of what was then due, the discontent alike of officers and sol- 

1 A fac-simile of this interesting document, the existence of which was long 
unknown, is given in the niemoiial volume of this Society published in 1S73. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 5 

diers could not be soothed ; that a mutiny might ensue, and 
that it would be hard to punish soldiers for a breach of en- 
gagements to the public which the public itself, in the person 
of its representatives in Congress, had already broken. It 
was a source of irritation that the members of the legislatures 
never adjourned till they had paid themselves fully; that all 
on the civil lists regularly received their salaries, and that all 
on the military lists were as regularly left unpaid.^ An anony- 
mous address, now known to have been written by Major John 
Armstrong, aide-de-camp to Major-General Gates, was cir- 
culated among the troops on March lo, 1783, with the secret 
connivance of the General, and with the purpose of precipi- 
tating a crisis. It ended with these words: "Appeal from 
the justice to the fears of government, and suspect the man 
[meaning Washington] who would advise to longer for- 
bearance." A meeting was called for the following day, the 
iith of March. Washington received a copy of the address 
on the morning of the iith, and immediately issued a general 
order disapproving the anonymous and irregular invitation, 
and at the same time requesting all the highest officers and a 
representation of the rest to meet four days later, that is, on 
the 15th of March. The meeting called by the anonymous 
address was given up ; and when the officers assembled on 
the 15th, Washington was present, and made such a power- 
ful appeal to their honor and patriotism that it completely 
changed the current of feeling which had for several months 
been setting so strongly against the existing government. It 
is not perhaps too much to say that Washington's words and 
acts on that occasion saved the Republic. Knox seconded 
the efforts of his chief with characteristic courage and hearti- 
ness. As chairman of a committee, he reported a series of 
resolutions which declared, among other things, " that the 

' See Bancroft's History of the Formation of the Constitution, vol. i. chaps. 5 
and 6. 



6 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

officers of the American army view with abhorrence and 
reject with disdain the infamous propositions contained in 
the late anonymous address to them." The resolutions were 
adopted unanimously ; and on the day Congress was apprised 
of what had taken place, nine States immediately concurred 
in commuting the half pay promised the officers into a sum 
equal to five years' full pay, to be discharged by certificates 
bearing interest at six per cent. 

Such was the condition of aff'airs when Knox produced his 
plan for a voluntary association in which those who had 
" so conspicuous an agency in the American Revolution . . . 
should pledge themselves to each other to support, by all 
means consistent with the laws, that noble fabric of united 
independence which at so much hazard and with so many 
sacrifices they had contributed to erect." ' It appears from 
the official records that the " Proposals " having been com- 
municated to the several regiments of the respective lines, 
they appointed an officer from each, who, in conjunction with 
the general officers, met at the "Cantonment of the American 
army on Hudson's river," May lO, 1783, to consider them. 
Major-General Steuben, the senior officer present, presided ; 
and that fact led many to suppose that the scheme originated 
with him, and to criticise it accordingly as the work of a 
foreigner accustomed to class distinctions, and naturally de- 
sirous of seeing them established in the country of his adop- 
tion. At this first meeting the "Proposals" were read and 
discussed ; and after some amendments had been made, they 
were referred to a committee consisting of Major-General 
Henry Knox, Brigadier-General Edward Hand, Brigadier- 
General Jedidiah Huntington, and Captain Samuel Shaw. 
The committee was instructed " to revise them, and pre- 
pare a copy to be laid before the officers at the next 

1 See .'Me.xander ILimiltuii's rc-purt lu the New Vurk Society, 1786. 







ryr^ 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 7 

meeting, to be holden at Major-General Baron de Steuben's 
quarters, on Tuesday, the 13th inst." 

The revised *' Institution," reported to the meeting on 
the 13th of May, is in the handwriting of Captain Shaw, 
the Secretary of the Committee. The official record states 
simply that it was "accepted," as follows: — 

INSTITUTION. 

It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, in the 
disposition of human affairs, to cause the separation of the colonies 
of North America from the domination of Great Britain, and, after a 
bloody conflict of eight years, to establish them free, independent, and 
sovereign states, connected, by alliances founded on reciprocal ad- 
vantage, with some of the greatest princes and powers of the earth ; 

To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this vast 
event, as the mutual friendships which have been formed under the 
pressure of common danger, and, in many instances, cemented by 
the blood of the parties, the officers of the American army do, 
hereby, in the most solemn manner, associate, constitute, and com- 
bine themselves into one society of friends, to endure as long as they 
shall endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and, in failure 
thereof, the collateral branches ^ who may be judged worthy of 
becoming its supporters and members. 

The officers of the American army, having generally been taken 
from the citizens of America, possess high veneration for the char- 
acter of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus ; and 
being resolved to follow his example, by returning to their citizen- 
ship, they think they may with propriety denominate themselves 

THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 

The following principles shall be immutable, and form the basis of 
the Society of the Cincinnati : — 

An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights 
and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, 

' See the proceedings at the meeting of the General Society in 1S54, et seq., 
post. 



8 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead 
of a blessing. 

An unalterable determination to promote and cherish, between 
the respective states, that union and national honor so essentially 
necessary to their happiness and the future dignity of the American 
empire. 

To render permanent the cordial affection subsisting among the 
officers : This spirit will dictate brotherly kindness in all things, and 
particularly extend to the most substantial acts of beneficence, ac- 
cording to the ability of the society, towards those officers and 
their families who unfortunately may be under the necessity of 
receiving it. 

The general society will, for the sake of frequent communications, 
be divided into state societies, and these again into such districts as 
shall be directed by the state society. 

The societies of the districts to meet as often as shall be agreed 
upon by the state society, those of the states on the fourth day of 
July, annually, or oftener, if they shall find it expedient, and the 
general society on the first Monday in May, annually, so long as 
they shall deem it necessary, and afterwards, at least once in every 
three years. 

At each meeting the principles of the Institution will be fully con- 
sidered, and the best measures to promote them adopted. 

The state societies will consist of all the members resident in each 
state respectively ; and any member removing from one state to an- 
other is to be considered, in all respects, as belonging to the society 
of the state in which he shall actually reside. 

The state societies to have a president, vice-president, secretary, 
treasurer, and assistant-treasurer, to be chosen annually, by a majority 
of votes, at the state meeting. 

Each state meeting shall write annually, or oftener, if neces- 
sary, a circular letter to the other state societies, noting whatever 
they may think worthy of observation respecting the good of the 
society or the general union of the states, and giving information 
of the officers chosen for the current year. Copies of these let- 
ters shall be regularly transmitted to the secretar)'-general of the 
society, who will record them in a book to be assigned for that 
purpose. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. Q 

The state society will regulate everything respecting itself and the 
societies of the districts consistent with the general maxims of the 
Cincinnati, judge of the qualifications of the members who may be 
proposed, and expel any member who, by conduct inconsistent with 
a gentleman and a man of honor, or by an opposition to the interests 
of the community in general, or the society in particular, may render 
himself unworthy to continue a member. 

In order to form funds which may be respectable, and assist the 
unfortunate, each officer shall deliver to the treasurer of the state 
society one month's pay, which shall remain forever to the use of 
the state society ; the interest only of which, if necessary, to be 
appropriated to the relief of the unfortunate. 

Donations may be made by persons not of the society, and by 
members of the society, for the express purpose of forming per- 
manent funds for the use of the state society, and the interest of 
these donations appropriated in the same manner as that of the 
month's pay. 

Moneys, at the pleasure of each member, may be subscribed in 
the societies of the districts, or the state societies, for the relief of 
the unfortunate members, or their widows and orphans, to be appro- 
priated by the state society only. 

The meeting of the general society shall consist of its officers 
and a representation from each state society, in number not exceed- 
ing five, whose expenses shall be borne by their respective state 
societies. 

In the general meeting, the president, vice-president, secretary, 
assistant-secretary, treasurer, and assistant-treasurer-general shall be 
chosen, to serve until the next meeting. 

The circular letters which have been written by the respective 
state societies to each other, and their particular laws, shall be read 
and considered, and all measures concerted which may conduce to 
the general intendment of the society. 

It is probable that some persons may make donations to the gen- 
eral society, for the purpose of establishing funds for the further com- 
fort of the unfortunate, in which case such donations must be placed 
in the hands of the treasurer-general, the interest only of which to be 
disposed of, if necessary, by the general meeting. 

All the officers of the American army, as well those who have 



lO HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

resigned with honor, after three years' service in the capacity of 
officers, or who have been deranged by the resolutions of Congress, 
upon the several reforms of the army, as those who shall have con- 
tinued to the end of the war, have the right to become parties to 
this Institution : provided that they subscribe one month's pay and 
sign their names to the general rules, in their respective state 
societies, those who are present with the army immediately, and 
others within six months after the army shall be disbanded, extra- 
ordinary cases excepted ; the rank, time of service, resolution of 
Congress by which any have been deranged, and place of residence, 
must be added to each name ; and as a testimony of affection to the 
memory and the offspring of such officers as have died in the ser- 
vice, their eldest male branches shall have the same right of be- 
coming members as the children of the actual members of the 
society. 

Those officers who are foreigners, not resident in any of the states, 
will have their names enrolled by the secretary-general, and are to be 
considered as members in the societies of any of the states in which 
they may happen to be. 

And as there are, and will at all times be, men in the respective 
states eminent for their abilities and patriotism, whose views may be 
directed to the same laudable objects with those of the Cincinnati, it 
shall be a rule to admit such characters as honorary members of the 
society, for their own lives only ; provided always that the number of 
honorary members in each state does not exceed a ratio of one to four 
of the officers or their descendants. 

Each state society shall obtain a list of its members ; and at the 
first annual meeting the state secretary shall have engrossed on 
parchment two copies of the institution of the society, which every 
member present shall sign, and the secretary shall endeavor to pro- 
cure the signature of every absent member ; one of those lists to be 
transmitted to the secretary-general to be kept in the archives of the 
society, and the other to remain in the hands of the state secretary. 
From the state lists the secretary-general must make out, at the first 
general meeting, a complete list of the whole society, with a copy of 
which he will furnish each state secretary. 

The society shall have an Order by which its members shall be 
known and distinguished, which shall be a medal of gold, of a proper 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. II 

size to receive tlie emblems, and suspended by a deep blue ribbon 
two inches wide, edged with white, descriptive of the union of France 
and America, viz. : — 

" The principal figure 

CINCINNATUS, 

Three senators presenting him with a sword and other military ensigns ; on a 

field in the background, his wife standing at the door of their cottage ; 

near it a plough and instruments of husbandry. 

Round the ivhole, 

OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REMPUBLICAM, 

On the reverse. 

Sun rising; a city with open gates, and vessels entering the port. 

Fame crowning Cincinnatus, with a wreath inscribed, 

VIRTUTIS PRiEMIUM. 

BeUnc, 

Hands joined, supporting a 

heart, with the motto, 

ESTO PERPETUA. 

Round the whole, 

SOCIETAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA 

A. D. 17S3." 

The society, deeply impressed with a sense of the generous as- 
sistance this country has received from France, and desirous of per- 
petuating the friendships which have been formed, and so happily 
subsisted, between the officers of the allied forces in the prosecution 
of the war, direct that the president-general transmit, as soon as may 
be, to each of the characters hereafter named, a medal containing the 
order of the society, viz. : — 

His Excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Pleni- 
potentiary, 

His Excellency the Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipotentiary, 
Their Excellencies — 

The Count D'Estaing, 

The Count de Grasse, 

The Count de Barras, 

The Chevalier de Touches, 



12 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

Admirals and Commanders in the Navy, 

His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau, Commander-in-Chief, 

And the generals and colonels of his army, and acquaint them that 
the society does itself the honor to consider them members. 

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing Institution be given to the 
senior officer of each state line, and that the officers of the respective 
state lines sign their names to the same, in manner and form follow- 
ing, viz. : — 

" We, the subscribers, officers of the American army, do hereby 
voluntarily become parties to the foregoing Institution, and do bind 
ourselves to observe, and be governed by, the principles therein con- 
tained. For the performance whereof we do solemnly pledge to each 
other our sacred honor. 

"Done in the Cantonment, on Hudson River, in the year 1783." 

That the members of the society, at the time of subscribing their 
names to the Institution, do also sign a draft on the paymaster-gen- 
eral in the following terms (the regiments to do it regimentally, and 
the generals and other officers not belonging to regiments, each for 
himself, individually), viz. : — 

"To John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster-General of the United States. 

" Sir, — Please to pay to treasurer for the 

state association of the Cincinnati, or his order, one month's pay of 
our several grades respectively,^ and deduct the same from the bal- 
ance which shall be found due to us on the final liquidation of our 
accounts, for which this shall be your warrant." 



1 The monthly pay of the several grades of officers in the revolutionary army 
was as follows : — 

Ensign %io.oo 

Lieut of infantry 26.60 

„ navy 30.00 

Capt.-lieuts. and lieuts. of artil- 
lery 3.3-30 

Captain of infantry 40.00 

„ artillery and cav. . . 50.00 

,, navy 60.00 

Major of infantry 50.00 

„ artillery and cav. . . 62.45 



Lieut.-col. of infantry 








$60.00 


„ artillery 








75.00 


Colonel of cavalry . 








93-67 


„ infantry . 








75.00 


„ artillery . 








100.00 


Brig.-general . . . 








125 00 


Maj. -general . . . 








166.00 


Surgeon 








60.00 


Surgeon's mate . . 








42.00 


Chaplain .... 








75.00 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 3 

That the members of the several state societies assemble as soon 
as may be, for the choice of their president and other officers ; and 
that the presidents correspond together and appoint a meeting of 
the officers who may be chosen for each state, in order to pursue 
such further measures as may be judged necessary. 

That the general officers, and the officers delegated to represent 
the several corps of the army, subscribe to the Institution of the gen- 
eral society, for themselves and their constituents, in the manner and 
form before prescribed. 

That General Heath, 

General Baron de Steuben, and 
General Knox, 
be a committee to wait on his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief 
with a copy of the Institution, and request him to honor the society 
by placing his name at the head of it. 

That Major- General Heath,i second in command in this army, 
be — and he hereby is — desired to transmit copies of the Institu- 
tion, with the proceedings thereon, to the commanding officer of the 
Southern army, the senior officer in each state, from Pennsylvania to 
Georgia inclusive, and to the commanding officer of the Rhode Island 
line, requesting them to communicate the same to the officers under 
their several commands, and to take such measures as may appear to 
them necessary for expediting the establishment of their state societies, 
and sending a delegation to represent them in the first general meet- 
ing, to be holden on the first Monday in May, 1784. 

The meeting then adjourned without day. 

Another meeting of the officers was held by request of the 
president, Major-General Steuben, on June 19, 1783, at which 
he stated that he had, agreeably to their request, transmitted 
to his Excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister Pleni- 
potentiary from the Court of France, a copy of the Institution 
of the Society of the Cincinnati, with their vote respecting 
his E.xcellency, and the other characters therein mentioned ; 

' It is a curious fact that the officer thus selected was the oiily one who subse- 
quently renounced the order of the Cincinnati. See his letter in the Biographical 
Notice. 



14 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

and that his Excellency had returned an answer, declaring 
his acceptance of the same, and expressing the grateful 
sense he entertains of the honor conferred on himself, and 
the other gentlemen of the French nation, by this act of the 
Convention. 

It was thereupon resolved, that the letter of the Chevalier 
de la Luzerne be recorded in the proceedings of the day, 
and deposited in the archives of the Society, as a testimony 
of the high sense this Convention entertains of the honor 
done to the Society by his becoming a member thereof. 

Major-General Steuben having also communicated a letter 
from Major L'Enfant, enclosing a design for the medal and 
order, containing the emblems of the Institution, it was — 

Resolved, That the bald eagle, carrying the emblems on its breast, 
be established as the order of the Society, and that the ideas of Major 
L'Enfant respecting it, and the manner of its being worn by the 
members, be adopted. That the order be of the same size, and in 
every other respect conformable to the said design, which for that 
purpose is certified by the Baron de Steuben, President of this Con- 
vention, and to be deposited in the archives of the Society as the 
original, from which all copies are to be made. Also, that silver 
medals, not exceeding the size of a Spanish milled dollar, with the 
emblems as designed by Major LEnfant, and certified by the Presi- 
dent, be given to each and every member of the Society, together 
with a diploma, on parchment, whereon shall be impressed the exact 
figures of the order and medal, as above mentioned ; anything in the 
original institution, respecting gold medals, to the contrary, notwith- 
standing. 

The president was instructed to transmit the thanks of the 
Convention to Major L'Enfant for his care and ingenuity in 
preparing the designs, and request a continuance of his atten- 
tion in carrying the designs into execution. 

It was also resolved " that his Excellency the Commander- 
in-Chief be requested to officiate as President-General until 
the first General Meeting, to be held in May, 1784. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 5 

Ballots were then taken for Treasurer-General and Secre- 
tary-General, and McDougall was elected to be the former 
and Knox the latter. 

Washington accepted the presidency, and in a letter to the 
Count de Rochanibeau, dated Oct. 29, 1783, referred to the 
Institution as follows : — 

" The officers of the American army, in order to perpetuate that 
mutual friendship which they contracted in the hour of common dan- 
ger and distress, and for other purposes which are mentioned in the 
instrument of their association, have united together in a society of 
friends under the name of Cincinnati ; and having honored me 
with the office of president, it becomes a very agreeable part of my 
duty to inform you that the Society have done themselves the honor 
to consider you and the generals and officers of the army which you 
commanded in America as members of the Society. 

" Major L'Enfant, who will have the honor to deliver this letter to 
you, will e.xecute the Order of the Society in France, amongst which 
he is directed to present you with one of the first Orders that are 
made, and likewise with Orders for the other gentlemen of your army, 
which I take the liberty to request you would present to them in the 
name of the Society. As soon as the diploma is made out, I will have 
the honor to transmit it to you." 

The foregoing proceedings had no sooner been made pub- 
lic than a violent outcry was raised against the promoters of 
the organization. It is not difficult to understand the popular 
feeling on the subject when we consider the disloyal utterances 
in which some of the officers, especially those in Gates's di- 
vision, had indulged, and the suspicion which at that time 
naturally attached to any institution in which the hereditary 
principle was recognized. In October, 1783, yEdanus Burke, 
a justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, issued a 
pamphlet' under the name of " Cassius," in which he set 

• "Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati, lately instituted by 
the Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, and other officers of the American Army ; 



1 6 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

forth that " the Institution created a race of Hereditary Pa- 
tricians or nobility," — "an hereditary Peerage " that would 
soon " occasion such an inequahty in the condition of our in- 
habitants that the country will be composed of only two ranks 
of men, — the patricians or nobles, and the rabble." 

He endeavored to show that the object of the promoters of 
the Society was the overthrow of the Republic and the usur- 
pation of supreme power. " They have laid in ruins," said 
he, " that state of civil equality which our laws and the nature 
of a Republican government promised us." And he went on 
to say that " the Cincinnati would soon have and hold an ex- 
clusive right to offices, honors, and authorities, civil and mili- 
tary." The evils were deep-rooted and past remedy; for the 
parties to the great iniquity were powerful, designing, and 
numerous. " The number of Peers," he said, " is not far 
short of ten thousand,^ and every generation will be adding 
to their numbers." 

Judge Burke, although the first, was not alone in the as- 
sault. Mr. Jefferson saw in the Society opposition to the 
" letter of some of our Constitutions and to the spirit of all 
of them," — opposition to " the natural equality of man." 
He considered it " the germ whose development is one day 
to destroy the fabric we have reared," and that " the day will 
certainly come when a single fibre left of this Institution will 
produce an aristocracy which will change the form of our 
governments from the best to the worst in the world." Many 
years later he stated that the expression he had used in a 
famous letter, — " the Samsons in the field and Solomons in 
Council, but who had had their heads shorn by the harlot 
England," — was " meant for the Cincinnati generally." He 

proving that it creates a race of Hereditary Patricians or Nobility." Philadelphia, 
Robert Bell, T7S3. 

' The original number of the Cincinnati was less than one fourth of the num- 
ber which Judge Burke's imaginative mind feared. Each gener.ation has lessened 
their number. At present there are 410 members. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCTNNATL. IJ 

declared himself to have been " an enemy to the Institution 
from the first moment of its conception," considered " their 
meetings objectionable," and " the charitable part of the 
Institution still more likely to do mischief," and advised 
them to " distribute their funds, renounce their existence," 
and " melt up their eagles." 

To Samuel Adams's watchful and suspicious mind, the asso- 
ciation presented an odious hereditary distinction of families, 
" a plan disgustful to the American feeling." And because 
" one of the Order had received a majority of the votes " in 
the town of Boston for an elective office, the old Patriot was 
afraid the citizens were " not so vigilant as they used and still 
ought to be." 

John Adams considered it " the deepest piece of cunning 
yet attempted ; it is sowing the seeds of all that European 
Courts wish to grow up among us, viz., of vanity, ambition, 
corruption, discord, and sedition." At a later period in life, 
and in reply to a complimentary address from the Society in 
South Carolina, he spoke of them as " enjoying the sweetest of 
rewards in the grateful affection of their fellow-citizens," and 
closed by saying, " When the Cincinnati of South Carolina 
pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors, 
I believe no man will doubt their integrity." 

Dr. Franklin indulged in some ridicule of the Institution, 
and condemned the members as " forming an order of Hered- 
itary Knights ; " but he subsequently accepted an honorary 
membership in the Society. 

John Jay thought that the " Order will eventually divide us 
into two mighty factions." In reply to a suggestion to be- 
come an honorary member of the Society, he said that " he 
was neither young enough nor old enough to desire that 
honor." 

Mirabeau, who subsequently played so conspicuous a part 
in the French Revolution, was deeply stirred by the establish- 



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ment of such an institution in the land of democracy; and, 
taking Judge Burke's work as a basis, he issued a tract, which 
he subsequently translated into English, and published in 
London Sept. 30, 1784, under the title of " Considerations 
on the Order of Cincinnatus." The following quotation will 
give an idea of the line of argument pursued by the foreign 
critic : — 

" The institution of the Order of Cincinnatus is the creation of an 
actual patriciate and of a military nobility, which will erelong become 
a civil nobility, and an aristocracy the more dangerous because, being 
hereditary, it will perpetually increase in the course of time, and will 
gather strength from the very prejudices which it will engender ; be- 
cause, originating neither in the constitution nor the law, the law has 
provided no means to control it, and it will immediately overbear the 
constitution of which it forms no part ; till the time shall come when, 
by repeated attempts, made sometimes clandestinely and sometimes 
openly, it will at length have incorporated itself into the constitution, 
or when, after having for a long time sapped its foundations, it will in 
the end overturn and utterly destroy it." (p. 5.) 

The denunciation was not confined to individuals. Gov- 
ernors of several of the States presented the Society to the 
consideration and censure of the Legislatures; some of whom 
directed inquiries, and others passed hostile resolutions. The 
General Court of Massachusetts resolved that " the Society 
was unjustifiable, and, if not properly discountenanced, might 
be dangerous to the peace, liberty, and safety of the United 
States in general, and this State in particular." The assertion 
of several writers, that those who joined the Order were dis- 
franchised in some of the States, is incorrect ; the hostility to 
it did not go to that extent.^ 

Washington felt strongly the violence of the popular clamor, 

1 McMaster, the latest writer on the subject, in his " History of the People of 
the United .States," vol. i. p. 16S, says ■ " The officer who subscribed to its laws 
laid down in manv States his rights of citizenship." 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 1 9 

and was willing to make concessions to the prevailing excite- 
ment, which in the light of history it must be admitted were 
conceived in an overestimate of the reality and of the honesty 
of the hostility to the Society. " However ill-founded," says 
Marshall, " the public prejudices might be, he (Washington) 
thought this a case in which they ought to be respected, and 
if it should be found impracticable to convince the people 
that their fears were misplaced, he was disposed ' to yield 
to them in a degree, and not suffer that which was intended 
for the best of purposes, to produce a bad one.' " 

Knox thus described the condition of public sentiment in 
New England, in a letter to Washington, dated at Boston, 
Feb. 21, 1784: — 

" The Cincinnati appears (however groundlessly) to be an ob- 
ject of jealousy. The idea is, that it has been created by a foreign 
influence in order to change our form of government ; and this is 
strengthened by a letter from some of our ministers abroad. Burke's 
pamphlet has had its full operation. The cool, dispassionate men 
seem to approve of the institution generally, but dislike the hereditary 
descent. The two branches of the legislature of the State have 
chosen a committee ' to inquire into any associations or combina- 
tions which have [been] or may be formed to introduce undue dis- 
tinctions in the community, and which may have a tendency to create 
a race of hereditary nobility contrary to the confederation of the 
United States and the spirit of the Constitution of this Common- 
wealth.' They have not reported, and perhaps will not. The same 
sentiments pervade New England. The Society have had a respect- 
able meeting in Boston on the i6th inst., at which General Lincoln 
presided : General Heath was not present. A committee was chosen 
to attend the General Meeting at Philadelphia next May, — General 
R. Putnam, Colonel Cobb, Lieutenant-Colonel Hull, Major Sargent, 
and myself. Probably two only will attend. It was thought prudent 
not to make any honorary members at present." 

La Fayette wrote to Knox from Paris, under date of Jan. 8, 

1784:- 



20 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

" Our association meets with great success. On Thursday next a 
sufficient number of Eagles will be made to answer immediate pur- 
poses. I intend inviting all the American officers to my house, and 
to conduct them in a body, with our regimentals, to the General of 
the French army, to whom we will present the marks of the associa- 
tion. You will receive many applications relative to an addition to the 
brotherhood. But as nothing will be decided before the assembly in 
May, I have time to send you my observations." 

From Paris Colonel Gouvion wrote to Knox, in March, 
1784: — 

" The Order succeeds extremely well in this country, but the news 
we have from America gives me some uneasiness. The .\merican 
gentlemen who are in Paris, and not members of the Society, are 
much against it ; chiefly Mr. Jay, who went the other day so far as to 
say that if it did take well in the States he would not care whether the 
Revolution had succeeded or not." 

It was well understood that in Congress the Society was 
viewed with secret disapprobation : — 

" What are the sentiments of Congress on this subject," said Jeffer- 
son, in answer to Washington's inquiries, " and what line they will 
pursue, can only be stated conjecturally. Congress as a body, if left 
to themselves, will, in my opinion, say nothing on the subject. They 
may, however, be forced into a declaration by instructions from some 
of the States or by other incidents. Their sentiments, if forced from 
them, will be unfriendly to the institution. If permitted to pur.sue 
their own track, they will check it by side blows whenever it comes 
in their way ; and, in competitions for office on equal or nearly 
equal ground, will give silent preferences for those who are not of 
the fraternity." 

The first General Meeting after the disbanding of the army 
took place at the City Tavern, Philadelphia, on May 4, 1784. 
Washington was unanimously chosen President; Major-Gen- 
eral Gates, Vice-President; and Major-General Kno.x, Sec- 
retary. In a long address to the members of the Convention 
Washington urged with much warmth and feclinfr that those 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 21 

parts of tlie institution which had excited hostile criticism 
should be changed ; and he declared his determination to 
withdraw from the Society if the popular feelings on the sub- 
ject were not respected. The general sentiment was in favor 
of concession ; and on the 13th of May, on the recommenda- 
tion of a committee, the Convention agreed that the following 
material alterations and amendments should be made : — 

" That the hereditary succession should be abolished ; that all in- 
terference with political rights should be done away ; and that the 
funds should be placed under the immediate cognizance of the sev- 
eral legislatures, who should also be requested to grant charters for 
more effectually carrying our humane designs into execution." 

A circular letter, signed by Washington, was sent to the 
several State Societies urging their concurrence in the pro- 
posed alterations. 

The Massachusetts Society concurred in the alterations at 
the annual meeting on the 4th of July following; but several 
of the other State Societies either declined to concur or 
neglected to take any action upon the subject. At the sec- 
ond General Meeting, in 1787, it was resolved that the alter- 
ations could not take effect until they had been agreed to by 
all the State Societies. At the General Meeting, May 5, 
1800, a committee reported that — 

" From the silence which the State Societies have observed, after 
the pressing Circular Letters of the General Meeting, your Committee 
are led to conclude that they do not accede to the proposed reform ; 
and your Committee conceive therefrom that they are authorized to 
report to the General Meeting — 

" That the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati remains as it 
was originally proposed and adopted by the officers of the American 
Army, at their Cantonments on the banks of the Hudson River, in 
1783." 

This report was unanimously adopted. ^ 

' The meeting of 17S4 proceeded, as did also several of the subsequent meet- 
ings, up to 1800, as though the proposed amendment to the Institution were already 



22 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

The action of the General Meeting, in 1784, was sufficient, 
however, to allay in most minds the distrust of the Society 
which had been excited by the comments of Judge Burke and 
others. But the neglect to ratify that action caused Washing- 
ton to look forward to the Triennial Meeting, in 1787, with 
some apprehension. On the 2d of April of that year he wrote 
to Knox: — 

" If I should attend the Convention [to frame the Constitution of 
the United States], I will be in Philadelphia previous to the meeting 
of the Cincinnati, where I shall hope and expect to meet you, and 
some others of my particular friends, the day before, in order that I 
may have a free and unreserved conference with you on the subject 
of it ; for I assure you this is, in my estimation, a business of a deli- 
cate nature. That the design of the Institution was pure, I have not 
a particle of doubt ; that it may be so still, is perhaps equally unques- 
tionable ; but qiicere, Are not the subsidence of the jealousies of it to 
be ascribed to the modification which took place at the last Gen- 
eral Meeting? Are not these rejected in toto by some of the State 
societies, and partially acceded to by others? Has any State so far 
overcome its prejudices as to grant a charter? Will the modifica- 
tions and alterations be insisted on or given up in the next meeting? 
If the first, will it not occasion warmths and divisions? If the latter, 
and I should remain at the head of this Order, in what light would 
my signature appear in contradictory recommendations? In what 
light would the versatility appear to the foreign members, who per- 
haps are acting agreeably to the recommendations of the last General 
Meeting? These, and other matters which may be agitated, will, I 
fear, place nie in a disagreeable predicament if I should preside, and 
were among the causes which induced me to decline the honor of it, 
previously to the meeting." 

General Mifflin presided at the General Meeting of the 
Cincinnati on May 7, 1787. Washington, who was in Phila- 

in force and operative, notwithstanding that in the Circniar of 17S4 to the State 
Societies, it was submitted to those .Societies for their rntificatiou. This doubt- 
less misled Marshall into the erroneous statement that the Constitution was al- 
tered and " the hereditary principle relinquished" Sjiarks, Guizot, Ilildrelh, 
and Washington Irving made the same error. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 23 

dclphia at the time for the purpose of attending the Con- 
vention to frame a Constitution for the United States, attended 
the meeting, but took no part in the proceedings. He was, 
however, re-elected president of the General Society of the 
Cincinnati, and continued to be re-elected and to perform 
the duties of the office until his death. 

The succession to membership in the Society has always 
been a fruitful theme for discussion. In reporting to the New 
York Society, in 1786, against the adoption of the modified 
Institution recommended by the General Society, Alexander 
Hamilton said the provision in regard to the duration or suc- 
cession of the Society was not expressed in terms sufficiently 
explicit, " and as far as it may intend an hereditary succession 
by right of primogeniture is liable to this objection, — that it 
refers to birth what ought to belong to merit only, a principle 
inconsistent with the genius of a society founded on friendship 
and patriotism." 

At a meeting of the General Society held on May 4, 1829, 
" a question having arisen whether, in case of the death of a 
member having no male issue except a grandson, the issue of 
a daughter, such grandchild shall be preferred to collaterals ; 
the Society conceives the true construction of the Constitution 
to be that the grandchild shall be preferred, he being in the 
direct line of descent." 

A committee appointed in 1848 to investigate the subject 
of the admission of members submitted a long report in 185 I, 
in which they stated that — 

" It is in vain, in the present diversity of practice, to exact a 
uniform rule, or extract from the variety more than a general prin- 
ciple ; or to insist upon any ground but one that shall embody 
the spirit, and embrace the objects of the original Institution in its 
comprehensive scope, limiting the succession to the blood of the 
Revolution. 



24 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

"The Committee is, therefore, brought to the conclusion that the 
Institution remains on the original foundation of 1783, subject, how- 
ever, to some modification of the strict technical construction of the 
terms therein used with regard to the hereditary succession, congenial 
to the spirit of our civil institutions, and in accordance with the sense 
of the General Society and of the State Societies, as expressed in 
reference to the proposed amendment of 1 784 ; that the right of 
succession is not absolute even in the eldest son, but is subject to the 
right of the Society to judge whether he be ' worthy of becoming its 
supporter and member.' That this right of the Society to judge of 
the merit of the applicant applies equally to the eldest son and to the 
' collateral branches ' descending from the original members ; and 
thus that the right of succession, by title of primogeniture, is wholly 
subordinate to the claim of worth and merit on the part of the 
applicant. 

" The Committee believe this to have been the final intention of 
the framers of the Institution, and also to be a fair construction of 
the language of that instrument. At all events, the silent action and 
usage of the Society, in all its branches, for considerably more than 
half a century, has given a construction to this principle which cannot 
well now be questioned." 

The Committee reported an ordinance giving expression to 
this construction, and also recognizing, in terms, the right of 
any State Society to admit all the adult male descendants of 
any officer of the American Army of the Revolution, who was, 
or who was entitled to have become a member of the Society, 
but not the absolute right of such descendants to claim ad- 
mission without regard to the judgment of the Society. 

The several State Societies to which the ordinance was sent 
did not concur in its adoption ; and at the meeting on May 17, 
1854, the following resolutions were adopted and sent to the 
State Societies : — 

Resolved, That each State Society shall have the full right and 
power to regulate the admission of members, both as to the qualifi- 
cations of the members and the terms of admission. Provided, that 
admission be confined to the male descendants of original members, 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 2$ 

or of those who are now members (including collateral branches as 
contemplated by the original Constitution) ; or to the male descend- 
ants of such officers of the Army or Navy as may have been entitled 
to admission, but who failed to avail themselves thereof within the 
time limited by the Constitution ; or to the male descendants of such 
officers of the Army or Navy of the Revolution as may have resigned 
with honor or left the service with reputation ; or to the male collateral 
relatives of any officer who died in service without leaving issue. 

Resolved, That the male descendants of those who were members 
of State Societies which have been dissolved, may be admitted into 
existing Societies upon such terms as those Societies may think proper 
to prescribe. 

Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be proposed to the several 
State Societies and their assent be requested thereto ; and upon such 
assent being given by each of the remaining Societies, the Secretary- 
General shall issue notice thereof to each Society ; and thereupon 
the said resolutions shall become operative, and each State Society 
shall be at liberty to act upon the power given thereby.^ 

These resolutions did not receive the assent of all the State 
Societies ; and at a meeting of the General Society held in 
Trenton, in May, 1856, at which delegates were present from 
five States, — namely, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylva- 
nia, Maryland, and South Carolina, — the following resolution 
was adopted : — 

Resolved, Th:it the resolution adopted at the last Triennial Meeting, 
requiring the assent of the several State Societies to the resolutions 
in relation to the admission of members, as the condition on which 
the said resolutions shall become operative, be, and the same is 
hereby, repealed. 

At the meeting of the General Society in May, 1884, it was 
resolved " that the General Society conceives the true con- 
struction of the Institution to be that where a descendant of 
an original member or person otherwise entitled to member- 
ship shall apply for membership and be otherwise eligible, he 

' See annals of the Massachusetts Society, July 4, 1S54, for action tliereon. 



26 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

should not be deemed to be ineligible by reason of not being 
a citizen of the United States. 

The rules of the several State Societies with regard to the 
admission of new members are not uniform. In Massachusetts 
membership is limited to a single individual of the same line. 
The South Carolina Society voted, in 1799, that unless the 
General Society should adopt a system for perpetuating the 
organization, the line of conduct to be observed by that So- 
ciety in the future would be to admit to membership all the 
male descendants of original members both in the male and 
female branches ; also, on certain conditions, the descendants 
of officers who, having served with reputation, died during the 
war, or who, having been entitled to become members, died 
within six months after the army was disbanded ; also, on a 
three-fourths vote and one month's pay, officers who had 
served six years at any time in the army or navy of the 
United States, or who, after three years' service, had been 
deranged by act of Congress. > 

In all the societies from the beginning, a brother or a 
nephew of an original member has been deemed to be eligi- 
ble ; and direct male descendants, through female collateral 
lines, have, upon failure of original male lines, been admitted, 
in preference to kinsmen more remote. The admission of 
nephews has been extended in Massachusetts and New York 
to one claiming through a sister of an original member. In 
1822 the first and only instance occurred in Massachusetts of 
the choice of a cousin as the nearest male relative to succeed 
a deceased member.^ 

At the meeting of the General Society in May, 1829, it was 
resolved : " That the members residing in any State not having 
a State Society of the Cincinnati may form themselves into 
such State Society." At the meeting in May, 1884, it was 

1 See annals of the Massachusetts Society, under date of 1799, July 4. 
- William Lyman succeeded his cousin. James W. Lyman. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 2"] 

resolved that the words " any State " in the foregoing resolu- 
tion of 1829 " shall only be construed to include any of the 
thirteen original States." ^ 

At the meeting of the General Society in May, 1884, it was 
resolved : " That it is the opinion of the General Society that 
when an application for relief from any member, or from his 
family, or from the descendant of any original member is 
found to be necessary, such application should be made to 
the State Society wherein was deposited the contribution of 
the propositus of such applicant to the permanent fund."^ 

Of the thirteen State Societies organized under the Consti- 
tution, as agreed upon by the officers of the American Army 
in 1783, only seven are now represented at the meetings of 
the General Society. 

The Massachusetts Society, organized June 9, 1783, and 
incorporated by the General Court March 13, 1806, had three 
hundred and forty original members.^ The number of heredi- 
tary members reported at the Triennial Meeting in May, 1890, 
was eighty-eight. 

The Rhode Island Society was organized June 24, 1783, 
and incorporated by the State, Feb. 28, 18 14. It had 
seventy-one original members. At the annual meeting on 
July 4, 1832, at which less than a quorum was present, it was 
voted to dissolve the Society and distribute its funds. It 
does not appear, however, that any distribution was made ; 
but the bulk of the permanent fund was lost, probably through 
bad investments. In 1878 the descendants of some of the 

1 See proceedings of the Massachusetts Society, July 4, 1805, on the petition of 
General Rufus Putnam and others, members of the Society who had removed to 
Ohio. Annals, post. 

2 See rule of the Massachusetts Society, adopted in i852 and repealed in 1887. 
Also biographical notice of Ensign Frederick Frye. 

* Dr. Joseph Prescott, the last survivor of the original members of the Massa- 
chusetts Society, died in 1852. Lieutenant Robert Burnet, Jr., of the New 
York Society, who was born on Feb. 22, 1762, and died on Nov. 29, 1S54, was 
the last survivor of the original members in this country. 



28 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

original members took steps to resuscitate the Society, which, 
it was represented, had been, since 1832, in a state of sus- 
pended animation. The original charter rights of the Society 
were affirmed by the State Legislature (Feb. 28, 1878); and 
after some discussion the General Society passed a resolve 
(April 15, 1 881), by a vote of twenty-one to thirteen (the 
Massachusetts and New York delegates voting in the nega- 
tive), "that the Rhode Island Society be admitted to full 
membership as Cincinnati ; that the delegates present be en- 
titled to all the privileges and powers appertaining to such 
office." ^ 

The number of hereditary members reported in May, 1S90, 
was forty-two ; honorary members, seven. 

The Au-w York Socict}' was organized on June 9, 1783. 
Between the years 1804 and 1825 repeated applications were 
made to the State authorities for a charter, but without suc- 
cess. The number of original members was two hundred and 
thirty; the number of hereditary members reported in May, 
1 890, was fifty-seven ; honorary members, eight. 

The AVif yr/'j-rr Society was organized on June 11, 1783, 
but has never been incorporated. The number of original 
members was one hundred and ten ; the number of heredi- 
tary members reported in May, 1890, was eight}-; honorary 
members, ten. 

The Pennsylvania Society was organized on Oct. 4, 1783, 
and incorporated under the general laws of the State, April 
4, 1792. The number of original members was two hun- 
dred and sixty-eight; the number of hereditary members 
reported in May, 1890, w-as forty-two; honorary members, 
four. 

1 No definite rule of action has been prescribed by the General Society with a 
view to the reorganization of any dissolved State Society, although the subject 
has at several different times been considered. An elaborate report on the 
Rhode Island case will be found in the Proceedings of the General Society 
for I SS I . 



SOCIETY OK THE CINCINNATI. 29 

The Maryland Society was organized on Nov. 21, 1783, 
but has never been incorporated. The number of original 
members was one hundred and forty-eight; the number of 
hereditary members reported in May, 1890, was thirty-four. 

The South Carolina Society was organized on August 29, 
1783, and incorporated by the State Legislature, Dec. 16, 
1824. The number of original members was one hundred 
and thirty-One; the number of hereditary members reported 
in May, 1890, was si.vty-seven. 

It appears that these seven societies now in existence 
had twelve hundred and ninety-eight original members, and 
that they now have four hundred and ten hereditary mem- 
bers and twenty-nine honorary members. 

The Nc'ni Hampshire Society ceased to hold meetings after 
1823, and it soon after became extinct by the death of all its 
members. The Records were presented to the New Hamp- 
shire Historical Society, and extracts from them are printed 
in the si.xth volume of the Society's Collections. There were 
only twenty-eight original members. 

The Connccticjit Society voted, on July 4, 1804, to dissolve 
and to distribute the funds among the original members, their 
legal heirs or representatives. At a subsequent meeting it 
was voted that all money belonging to the Society, not paid 
to the members by a certain date, be placed in the Treasury 
of Yale College, in trust as a place of safe keeping for the 
members or their legal representatives. The records and 
documents were placed in the custody of the Historical So- 
ciety at Hartford. There were two hundred and fifty-six origi- 
nal members ; and at the time of the dissolution seventeen 
hereditary members and seven honorary members had been 
elected. 

In 1888 steps were taken to reorganize the Society; and 
at the Triennial Meeting of the General Society in May, 1890, 
a formal application was made for recognition. The question 



30 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE 

was referred to a special committee to be reported upon at 
the meeting in 1893. 

The Virginia Society held no formal meeting after 1803. 
In 1822 the Standing Committee began to take the sense of 
the members as to the disposal of the Society's permanent 
fund; and on Oct. 13, 1824, they formally deeded the same 
to Washington College, now the Washington and Lee Univer- 
sity. The fund now in possession of the University amounts 
to something over twenty-five thousand dollars. There were 
two hundred and sixty-four original members of this Society. 
Some of the descendants have recently taken steps to re- 
organize ; and the question of their recognition will probably 
be passed upon at the next meeting of the General Society. 

The Delaware Society continued in existence but a short 
time. There were twenty-seven original members. 

The Societies of Nortli Carolina and Georgia did not send 
delegates to the General Meeting after 1790; but there ap- 
pears to have been an election of officers in the Georgia 
Society in 1795. 

In France the Society met with great favor in the begin- 
ning. A translation of the Institution having been forwarded 
by the Count de Rochambeau to the French Minister of War, 
the latter notified him of the approbation of the king, who 
permitted the French members of the order to appear at 
court with the new decoration ; the only foreign order previ- 
ously suffered to be worn in his service being that of the 
Golden Fleece. 

The first list prepared by the general-in-chief comprised 
seven general officers, eight brigadiers, and eighteen colonels. 
These made a subscription of sixty thousand francs, in aid of 
the impoverished officers of the American army; but Wash- 
ington, in the name of his associates, courteously declined to 
accept the gift. So many applications were made by officers 
desirous of obtaining the distinction of membership, that 



SOCIETY OF THE CIXCINNATI. 3 I 

finally the right of accepting or rejecting their requests was 
transferred to the Society in France. ^ The Revolution of 
1789 broke up the French Society; and in 1793 a number 
of its leading members — D'Estaing, Custine, Lauzun, Dillon, 
and Broglie — fell beneath the guillotine. Some of the de- 
scendants of the original members started a movement to 
reorganize the Society just before the coup d'etat of Louis 
Napoleon, but it was checked by that tragic affair. 

The Centennial celebration at Yorktown, in 1881, in which 
a number of the descendants of French officers who had 
served in the War of the Revolution took part, led to a re- 
newal of the efforts to resuscitate the Society in France. At 
the Triennial Meeting of the General Society July 28, 1887, 
the revival of the Society was authorized ; and the work of 
reorganization, under the direction of M. le Marquis de 
Rochambeau, acting President, has already made substantial 
progress. 

At the meeting of the General Society in May, 1881, it was 
resolved " that a commemorative medal be prepared, with 
appropriate design and inscription, to celebrate the occasion 
of the Centennial Anniversary of the foundation of the 
Society." 

The medal was designed and executed under the supervision 
of General Palfrey of the Massachusetts Society, and was fur- 
nished upon requisition to members of the several State So- 
cieties. The price of the medal in gold was twenty dollars ; 
in silver, two dollars ; and in bronze, one dollar and thirty 
cents. 

The General Society having decided not to commemorate 
the centennial anniversary otherwise than by striking these 
medals, the State Society of New York invited, informally, 

■ A complete list of the members, extracted from Baron de Girardot's pam- 
phlet, will be found in the Appendix. 



32 HISTORICAL SKETCH OV THE 

members of other State Societies who were in the city of New 
York to join them on May 14,^ 1883, in an excursion up the 
Hudson River to Washington's headquarters at Newburgh 
and General Steuben's headquarters at Fishkill. The different 
State Societies were well represented on the occasion, and the 
proceedings on the spot where the Society of the Cincinnati 
was founded were highly impressive. 

In 1887 the General Society was invited to send representa- 
tives to the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the 
adoption of the Federal Constitution, at Philadelphia on Sep- 
tember 15-17. The invitation of the Centennial Commission 
said : " Knowing the patriotic relation which the members of 
this Society bear to the great work which we commemorate in 
September, we desire, in their person, to do honor to their 
ancestors who contributed so much to the work of the Con- 
stitutional Union." The Massachusetts Society was well 
represented by General Henry Jackson Hunt, U. S. A. 

The principal officers of the Cincinnati having been officially 
invited to take part in the Centennial celebration in New York 
April 29 and 30, and May i, 1889, commemorative of the or- 
ganization of the National Government under the Constitu- 
tion, the occasion seemed an appropriate one for an informal 
gathering of such members of the Cincinnati belonging to 
the several State Societies as desired a special observance 
of the anniversary. Arrangements were accordingly made 
for a subscription banquet on the evening of April 27 
(Saturday), and for religious services on the following day. 
The banquet took place at the Lawyers' Clubhouse in New 
York, and was attended by a good number of members 
from each of the State Societies. In the absence of the 
President and Vice-President-General, the Hon. Samuel C. 
Cobb, President of the Massachusetts Society, w^as invited 

' May 13, the clay on which the Institution was adopted, fell on Sunday in 
1SS3. 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. T,;^ 

to preside. In welcoming those present to the pleasures 
of the occasion, he said, — 

"As successors of the brave and patriotic men who formed this 
brotherhood, this meeting is both timely and appropriate ; for it is 
not too much to say — I am sure the historical records will bear me 
out in saying — that the founders of this organization were the fore- 
most actors in the various movements which culminated in that ' more 
perfect union of the States,' secured by the Federal Constitution which 
went into operation a hundred years ago. Very happily, therefore, 
this Centennial anniversary furnishes the opportunity for a renewal 
and strengthening of our views of allegiance to the principles and 
purposes upon which this Institution was founded, so that its benefi- 
cent work may be perpetuated and its members made worthy of a 
glorious heritage." 

Speeches were made by the Hon. R. B. Hayes, ex-Presi- 
dent of the United States ; the Hon. Asa Bird Gardiner, 
Secretary-General of the Cincinnati ; the Hon. James Simons, 
ot South Carolina; the Rt. Rev. Wm. S. Perry, D.D., Bishop 
of Iowa ; the Hon. Frederick S. Tallmadge, President of the 
Society of Sons of the Revolution ; David G. Haskins, Jr., 
Esq., and others. 

The commemorative services of the Cincinnati were held 
in St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway. The form of service used 
was substantially the same as that used by Bishop Provoost, 
in the same chapel, on the occasion of the inauguration of 
President Washington, April 30, 1789. The services were 
conducted by Bishop Perry, of Iowa (who preached the ser- 
mon) and by the Rev. Charles C. Pinckney, D.D., Chaplains- 
General of the Order of the Cincinnati. 

At the Triennial Meeting of the General Society, held 
in Baltimore, May 7-10, 1890, there was a full representa- 
tion from the existing State Societies, and the proceedings 
were marked with all the enthusiasm of earlier days. The 
following general officers were elected : — 
3 



34 GENERAL OEFICERS. 

PRESIDENT-GENERAL. 

HON. HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., 

Of the New York State Society. 

VICE-PRESIDENT-GENERAL. 
HON. ROBERT MILLIGAN McLANE, 

Of the Maryland State Society. 

SECRETAR Y-GENERAL. 
HON. ASA BIRD GARDINER, LL.D., 

Of the Rhode Island State Society. 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL. 
MR. THOMAS PINCKNEY LOWNDES, 

Of the South Carolina Society. 

TREASURER-GENERAL. 

MR. JOHN SCHUYLER, C. E., 

Of the New York State Society. 

ASSISTANT TREASURER-GENERAL. • 

MR. HERMAN BURGIN, M.D., 

Of the New Jersey State Society. 



ANNALS 



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ANNALS 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



THE first meeting of the members of the Massachusetts 
Society was held at the cantonment of the Massachu- 
setts Hne near Newburgh, on the Hudson, June 9, 1783. 
Brigadier-General Paterson presided. A committee appointed 
to receive the votes for officers of the Society reported at an 
adjourned meeting on the 20th of the same month. On open- 
ing the ballots (which were sealed), it was found that one 
hundred and fifty had been cast, and that the Society had 
chosen — 



Major-General Benjamin Lincoln 
Major-General Henry Knox . . 
Colonel John Brooks .... 
Colonel Henry Jackson . . . 
Captain Benjamin Heywood . . 



Presiderit. 
Vice-President. 
Secretary. 
Treasurer. 
Assistant- Treasurer. 



The next meeting was held in Boston on the i8th of Feb- 
ruary, 1784. A committee was appointed to prepare by- 
laws ; and three members were chosen from each county to 
inquire into the situation of distressed members. 

1784, March 23. A committee of both Houses of the State 
Legislature, appointed to inquire into the existence, nature, 
object, and probable tendency of the Order or Society called 
the Cincinnati, made a report, which was accepted by the 
two Houses, as follows : — 



38 ANNALS OF THE 

" That the said Society called the Cincinnati is unjustifiable, and 
if not properly discountenanced, may be dangerous to the peace, 
liberty, and safety of the United States in general, and this Com- 
monwealth in particular. The Committee also report, as their opin- 
ion, that it is proper that further consideration of measures suitable 
and necessary to be taken, with respect to the Society of the Cincin- 
nati, be referred to the next sitting of the General Court." 

This recommendation was not acted upon, as the General 
Society, at its meeting in May, 1784, proposed to the State 
Societies that certain changes shbuld be made in the Insti- 
tution in deference to the popular feeling on the subject. At 
the annual meeting, July 4, 1784, the Massachusetts Society 
accepted the proposed changes. At the annual meeting in 
1786 this action was so far reconsidered that special instruc- 
tions respecting the amended Institution were given to the 
delegates to the next General Meeting. 

The first annual meeting of the Society was held July 4, 
1784, at the " Bunch of Grapes " tavern, in State Street, Bos- 
ton; and that continued to be the place of meeting for five 
years, after which Concert Hall, on the corner of Court and 
Hanover Streets, was used regularly until 1822 and occasion- 
ally until 1846. Between 1822 and 1834 meetings were fre- 
quently held at the Exchange Coffee House. From 1848 to 
i860 the Society met and dined at the United States Hotel, 
and since that date its meetings have been held at the Parker 
House. 

At the first annual meeting a committee was appointed to 
petition the Legislature to grant a charter of incorporation 
to the Society. The right of joining the Society was limited 
to that month, with the exception of those officers who had 
previously applied to sign the constitution, and with the fur- 
ther exception of the officers of the navy, who were allowed 
one year more for the purpose. 

1785, July 4. Dr. William Eustis was elected Vice-Presi- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 39 

dent of the Society in place of Major-General Knox, who had 
removed to New York; and the Secretary was instructed to 
transmit to General Knox the thanks of the Society for his 
services during the past year.^ 

1786, July 4. The proceedings at the dinner were reported 
in the " Independent Chronicle " of July 6, as follows: ^ — ■ 

" The Society of Cincinnati met at the Bunch of Grapes on the 4th 
of July, being the anniversary of their meeting. The day was cele- 
brated with the greatest good humor ; and after dinner the following 
toasts were drunk : — 

1. The Day. 

2. The United States in Congress assembled. 

3. The Allies of America. 

4. The President-General of the Cincinnati, our late illustrious 
Commander-in-Chief. 

5. The Marquis of Fayette and our Brethren this day assembled in 
France and America. 

6. The Governor and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

7. Agriculture, Commerce, Arts, and Sciences. 

8. The Soldiers of the late American Army. 

9. The memory of those who have fallen for their country. May the 
fate of their widows and orphans be tempered with justice and mercy. 

10. Just in herself, may America have the confidence to insist on a 
punctual fulfilment of the Treaty of Peace. And 

11. May her Militia support her measures, and prove the bulwark 
of her freedom. 

12. May the enemies of pie b lie faith, public honor, and public 
justice hold no place in the Councils of America. 

13. Perpetuity to the Federal Union, and perpetual infamy to the 
man who would dissolve it. 

" On announcing the fourth toast, a discharge of thirteen rounds 
from Copp's Hill evinced the joy which prevails among all orders of 

1 He was still retained on the rolls as a member of the Society. 

^ It will be interesting to compare the toasts given at this dinner — the first 
of which we have a report — with the toasts given at the Centennial Celebration 
in 1883. See post. 



40 ANNALS OF THE 

men whenever the name and virtues of a Washington are brought up 
to view." • 

1786, Oct. II. At a special meeting of the Society a com- 
mittee, of which Major-General Knox was chairman, was 
appointed " to prepare an address to the Legislature of the 
Commonwealth on the subject of our public securities, and 
also to bring in a draft of resolves proper for the Society to 
adopt, expressive of the abhorrence of the late tumults and 
disorder, and of our determination to support the present 
government." The following paragraph is extracted from 
the address accepted by the meeting : — 

" From causes unforeseen to the army and over which they had no 
control, their public securities have remained unpaid to this late hour ; 
and now, to our great chagrin and injury, we see arts practising to de- 
ceive and mislead the people into measures which we are confident 
they would blush to avow upon better information. We are there- 
fore, in justice to ourselves, compelled to say that the suggestion 
thrown out, that the officers and soldiers of this State have univer- 
sally sold their public securities are without foundation ; and that the 
argument drawn from these suggestions, viz., that justice to them for- 
bids the redemption of the public securities at their nominal value, is 
erroneous. Some of the officers and soldiers, indeed, have been re- 
duced to the hard necessity of selling them for a sum short of their 
real value ; yet very many of them are still holders of their State 
securities particularly, and should they now be denied payment 
agreeably to the face of the notes, they would suffer in a more 
aggravated degree than their too much injured brethren have done. 
Those who now hold them have not only been necessitated to bor- 
row, but many have borrowed under every disadvantage ; the ex- 
traordinary premiums which have been given have been a constant 
drain upon their capitals, and should a further deduction be made 
thereon by redeeming the notes at an undervalue agreeably to the 
principles of some, the injury which would be experienced on the 
whole by the present holders would exceed those which would have 
been sustained had the debt been annihilated the instant it became 
due." 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4 1 

Among the resolutions adopted was the following: — 

" As citizens and as public creditors, this Society are interested in 
the preservation of the Constitution, and so long as life and its attend- 
ant blessings, so long as public faith and private credit are made the 
sacred objects of government agreeably to its original institution, this 
Society pledge themselves to support it by every means and every 
exertion in their power." 

1787, April II. It was voted to constitute and appoint a 
Standing Committee of thirteen members, to meet monthly, 
to examine the claims of candidates for admission, and report 
thereon, and to transact all other business for the Society, the 
officers of the Society to be members ex officio, and five mem- 
bers to constitute a quorum. This body, annually re-chosen 
and subsequently enlarged, has ever since continued to admin- 
ister the benefactions and the general affairs of the Society. 
It was voted that an oration should be delivered before the 
Society on the Fourth of July ensuing. ^ 

At this meeting the delegates to the General Meeting, to 
be held in Philadelphia, were instructed " to promote the 
original objects of the Institution by an invariable attention 
to its original principles." This done, they go on to say, 
" We would not have you contend for any secondary points 
in opposition to the opinion of our brethren. It is the wish 
of this Society that its existence may be preserved by election, 
giving the preference to the nearest akin to any deceased officer, 
and not by hereditary descent." 

' There were six of these orations, the first four of which, delivered in the 
Old Brick Meeting House, were printed : the two last were given at the Stone 
Chapel. They were as follows : — 

Col. John Brooks 1787. 

Col. William Hull 1788. 

Dr. Samuel Whitwell 1789. 

Col. William Tudor 1790. 

Dr. William Eustxs 1791. 

Thomas Edwards, Esq '79-- 



42 ANNALS OF THE 

1787, July 13. At a meeting of the Standing Committee 
it was ordered that the following resolution be published in 
the public papers : — 

" IVhercas Luke and Elijah Day have, by openly joining, leading, 
and conducting the late rebellion in this Commonwealth, rendered 
themselves particularly odious and obnoxious to this Society : there- 
fore Resolved, That their month's pay be returned to them by the 
treasurer, as they are not and never have been considered as mem- 
bers of this Society." 

1788, During this and the following year a number of the 
most valuable members of the Society removed to the North- 
west Territory, where, under the leadership of Generals Rufus 
Putnam and Benjamin Tupper, they founded at Marietta the 
first white settlement in Ohio. Among these enterprising 
pioneers were Colonels Sprout and Stacy, Major Robert 
Oliver, Captains Nathaniel Cushing, Nathan Goodale, Zebulon 
King, Robert Bradford, Jonathan Stone, Haffield White, and 
Jonathan Haskell. 

1789, July 4. At the annual meeting, relief was granted to 
a distressed member, — the first instance of the bounty of the 
Society having been solicited. The Standing Committee were 
in 1 791 empowered to afford relief to such as were intended 
to be thus aided by the original association, not more than 
twenty dollars to be granted to an individual nor more than 
one quarter of the annual interest to be thus appropriated. 

The programme of ceremonies at the annual meeting in 
1789 is well worth a place in these annals: — 

" The sub-committee, appointed to form an arrangement for the 
celebration of the anniversary of Independence, beg leave to 
report : — 

" I. The Society to meet at the usual place at 10 o'clock k. u., and 
proceed to business. 

" 2. The oration to be delivered at the Old Brick Meeting House 
at I 2 o'clock at noon, permission having been obtained from a com- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 43 

mittee of the church, and the sexton to toll the bell at the hour 
appointed. 

" 3. That the Rev. Mr. West, senior clergyman (not already in- 
vited), be requested to pray; and, with the Rev. Mr. Clarke, be 
invited to dine with the Society. 

" 4. That there be a master and four marshals of ceremonies to 
conduct the business of the day. [These were. General Henry 
Jackson, master ; Major Gibbs, Captains Nicholson and Simeon 
Jackson, and Colonel Winslow, marshals.] 

"5. As some of our worthy brethren are unable to dine with the 
Society on account of the expense attending, we beg leave to recom- 
mend that each member of the Society who meets on the 4th inst. 
pay into the hands of the master of ceremonies six shillings lawful 
money as his full proportion of the expense of the day ; that the 
master of ceremonies call the bill not exceeding the sun's setting, 
and the treasurer of the Society be directed to pay the deficiency of 
the bills out of the interest on the funds in his hands. 

" 6. That the Society walk in procession from the Bunch of Grapes, 
to hear the oration, in the following order : — 

Two marshals. 

The Society, 

Visiting brothers, 

Standing Committee, 

Chairman, 

Orator, supported by the Clergy, 

Secretary and Treasurer, 

Master of Ceremonies, 

President and Vice-President, supported by two Marshals. 

" 7. When the procession arrives at the door of the church, the 
whole are to halt, open, and face inwards. The two marshals in the 
rear will then lead the procession ; the members will follow in suc- 
cession. The same order will be observed on the return from 
church ; and the two marshals in front will halt at the Bunch of 
Grapes, open, face inwards," etc. 

" Your committee beg leave further to report, that they have 
agreed with Mrs. Lobdell, at the Bunch of Grapes, to have the en- 
tertainment at her hotel, for fifty gentlemen ; pay her four shillings 
lawful money each ; she to provide the best dinner the season and 



44 ANNALS OF THE 

market will afford, agreeable to a memorandum furnished her ; we 
finding our own wine, paying her one shilling lawful money a bottle 
for drawing the corks, and three lawful money a double bowl of 
punch. 

" As we are of opinion that the best liquors will be most accept- 
able to the Society, we have agreed for the best Madeira wine at 
fourteen shillings lawful money per gallon, and the best claret wine 
at two shillings per bottle. 

" It is recommended that the fragments of the table be sent to the 
prisoners in gaol, and distributed to them under the direction of the 
High Sheriff, if he will please to take that trouble upon himself. 

" At dinner the master of ceremonies will sit on the right hand of 
the President. The four marshals will take their places at equal 
distances, two on each side of the table." 

On Sept. 14, 1789, the members of the Society dined on 
board the "Leopard," a French ship of seventy-four guns. 
The Marquis de la Galissoniere, a member of the Order of the 
Cincinnati, was captain. On September 24 the Society gave 
the French officers a brilliant entertainment in Concert Hall. 

On October 27 following. President Washington, then on a 
visit to Boston, was waited on by the Society, accompanied by 
the Viscount de Ponteves, the Marquis de Traversay, and the 
Chevalier de Braye, of the French Society. ^ Vice-President 
Eustis, in behalf of the Society, made the following address : 

"Amidst the various gratulations which your arrival in this me- 
tropolis has occasioned, permit us, the members of the Society of 
the Cincinnati in this Commonwealth, most respectfully to assure 
you of the ardor of esteem and affection you have so indelibly fixed 
in our. hearts, as our glorious leader in war and illustrious example in 
peace. 

" After the solemn and endearing farewell on the banks of the 
Hudson, which our anxiety presaged as final, most peculiarly pleas- 
ing is the present unexpected meeting. On this occasion we can- 

' These names do not appear in Baron Girardot's list of members of the 
French Society. Bee Appendix. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 45 

not avoid the recollection of the various scenes of toil and danger 
through which you conducted us ; and while we contemplate various 
trying periods of the war and the triumphs of peace, we rejoice to 
behold you, induced by the unanimous voice of your country, entering 
upon other trials and other services ahke important and in some points 
of view equally hazardous. For the completion of the great purposes 
which a grateful country has assigned you, long, very long, may your 
invaluable life be preserved ! And as the admiring world, while 
considering you as a soldier, have long wanted a comparison, may 
your virtue and talents as a statesman leave them without a 
parallel ! 

" It is not in words to express an attachment founded like ours. 
We can only say that, when soldiers, our greatest pride was a prompti- 
tude of obedience to your orders ; as citizens, our supreme ambition 
is to maintain the character of firm supporters of that noble fabric 
of federal government over which you preside. 

" As members of the Society of the Cincinnati, it will be our 
endeavor to cherish those sacred principles of charity and fraternal 
attachment which our Institution inculcates. And while our conduct 
is thus regulated, we can never want the patronage of the first of 
patriots and the best of men." 

To which the President responded as follows : — 

" To the Members of the Society of the Cincinnati in the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts. 

" Gentlemen, — In reciprocating with gratitude and sincerity the 
multiplied and affecting gratulations of my fellow-citizens of this 
Commonwealth, they will all of them with justice allow me to say 
that none can be dearer to me than the affectionate assurances which 
you have expressed. Dear indeed is the occasion which restores 
an intercourse with ray faithful associates in prosperous and adverse 
fortunes ! and enhanced are the triumphs of peace participated with 
those whose virtue and valor so largely contributed to procure them. 
To that virtue and valor your country has confessed her obligations ! 
Be mine the grateful task to add the testimony of a conviction which 
it was my pride to own in the field, and it is now my happiness to 
acknowledge in the enjoyments of peace and freedom. 



46 ANNALS OF THE 

" Regulating your conduct by those principles which have hereto- 
fore governed your actions as men, soldiers, and citizens, you will 
repeat the obligations conferred on your country, and you will trans- 
mit to posterity an example which must command their admiration 
and obtain their grateful praise. 

" Long may you continue to enjoy the endearments of fraternal 
attachment, and the heartfelt happiness of reflecting that you have 
faithfully done your duty ! 

" While I am permitted to possess the consciousness of that worth 
which has long bound me to you by every tie of affection and esteem, 
I will continue to be your sincere and faithful friend." 

1792, July 4. The admission of a brother of a deceased 
member first occurred at this meeting; and it was ordered 
that in future no person be admitted a member but by 
ballot. 

1796, July 4. The Standing Committee having examined 
the pretensions of Mr. Horace Binney, only son of the late 
Dr. Binney, an original member of the Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, recommended him to the Society as a member, and 
he was accordingly admitted.^ 

It was ordered, that no member shall have the right to 
vote on the business of the Society until he is twenty-one 
years of age. Also, that the Standing Committee shall dis- 
tribute the entire annual interest of the funds, not otherwise 
appropriated by the Society, among the imfortunate members 
or their widows or orphans ; and that distant objects might 
not suffer from a want of information of the time and place 
of distribution, the committee were instructed to give public 
notice of their meetings for this purpose, where applications 
might be made, and the money, when granted, paid ; in order 
that the bounty might be as equally and extensively shared 
as originally contemplated by the Institution. 

' Horace Binney was only sixteen years old at that time, and he continued to 
be a member of the Society until his death in 1875, — a period 0/ sevenly-nine 

years. See biographical notice, post. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSEll S. 47 

1798, July 4. On General Henry Jackson's motion, an 
address was voted to the President of the United States, on 
the critical and alarming state of the country as it respected 
the French Republic, pledging the Society to support and 
defend the government. 

I799> July 4- -At this meeting, a letter dated May 23, from 
the South Carolina Society, was read ; also the following ex- 
tract from the Journals of the Cincinnati of the State of South 
Carolina: "March 4, 1799. The Committee who were ap- 
pointed at the last meeting to digest the report of the Com- 
mittee for perpetuating the Society, as agreed the 25th ult., 
reported the same, which was read, adopted, and is as 
follows : — 

Report. — " That it be recommended as a line of conduct for this 
Society in future to observe, should the General Society not think 
proper to adopt a system for perpetuating the same : — 

" I. That all the sons of original members, and all the male 
descendants of any original members, whether such descent be 
derived through a male or female branch ; or of such officers as, 
having served with reputation, died during the last war ; or having 
been entitled to become members, died within six months after the 
army was disbanded, who may be judged worthy of becoming its 
members and supporters, — may be elected into this Society, on 
application, after attaining the age of twenty-one years, provided 
three fourths of a legal Quarterly Meeting are in his favor. That 
each member so elected shall pay into the hands of the treasurer, 
for the use of the fund, the sum of thirty dollars. 

" 2. That all the officers, commissioned, staff, or brevet, who have 
served in the army or navy of the United States, since the peace with 
Great Britain, for six years, and who still continue therein, or who, 
after having served as aforesaid for six years, left the service with 
reputation, or who shall have been deranged by any act or resolution 
of the Congress of the United States, after having served with repu- 
tation for three years ; and all those who are or shall hereafter be 
appointed to a command in the army or navy of the United States, 
commissioned, brevet, or staff, and who shall have served therein 



48 ANNALS OF THE 

with reputation for six years, or who shall be deranged by any act or 
resolution of Congress after a service with reputation for three years, 
— may be admitted into this Society, upon application, by election, 
provided three fourths of a legal Quarterly Meeting are in his favor, 
and upon payment of one month's pay into the treasury of this Society, 
according to the respective ranks of the applicants for admission. 

" 3. No election shall be valid without the name of the candidate 
shall be openly proposed at a regular quarterly meeting previous to 
the quarterly meeting at which the ballot shall be held." 

The Standing Committee of the Society of the Cincinnati 
of Massachusetts, to whom was referred the above report, and 
also a circular letter from the General Meeting at Philadelphia, 
May 24, 1799, reported as follows: — 

"By the first Institution of the Society, formed a. d. 1783, the 
officers of the American army associated ' to endure as long as they 
shall endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and in failure thereof 
the collateral branches who may be judged worthy of becoming mem- 
bers.' By this Institution, the eldest male branches of officers who 
died in the service had also a right to become members. 

"In the year 1784 an alteration of the original Institution was 
proposed by the General Meeting, and transmitted to the several 
State societies. By this constitution the hereditary succession was 
done away, without substituting any means of preserving the exist- 
ence of the Society. 

" On the 4th of July, 1 784, the Institution, ' as altered and 
amended,' was accepted by the Society of Massachusetts. 

"July 4, 1786, the Massachusetts Society voted as follows; viz., 
'That the vote of the Society, passed July 4, 1784, accepting the 
Institution as altered and amended, be reconsidered so far as to give 
instmctions to the delegates to be chosen to the next General Meet- 
ing respecting the said Institution.' 

" In April, 1787, instructions were given providing that vacancies 
should be supplied by elections from the oldest male heirs of de- 
ceased members, and that no alterations should be made by virtue of 
which the funds could be removed from the possession and control 
of the State Societies. These instructions were, in substance, again 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 49 

given in 1789. In 1793 the General Meeting recommended to the 
State societies to pass votes rendering vahd the proceedings of seven 
States present at a General Meeting. 

" By which it appears that, as the vote of Massachusetts, accepting 
the Institution as altered and amended, was afterward reconsidered, 
and as a number of the other State societies did not accept the same, 
the Society rests on the original Institution of a. d. i 783." 

The Committee proposed the following votes for the con- 
sideration of the Society : — 

" I . In lieu of the hereditary succession provided by the original 
Institution, it is the opinion of this Society that vacancies should be 
supplied by an election of members by ballot, in which the eldest 
male heir of a deceased officer should be considered the candidate, 
and that the assent of three fourths of the members present at a 
regular meeting should be necessary to his admission ; and in case 
such candidate should fail to be admitted by the before- mentioned 
majority, the next eldest male heir should become the next candidate, 
and so on until an election should be effected. 

" 2. That all such alterations and amendments of the Institution 
of the Cincinnati as shall be concurred in by the representatives of 
seven State societies present in the next General Meeting shall be 
obligatory, and inviolably observed by every State society ; excepting 
that no alteration or amendment shall be made or become obligatory 
by virtue of which the funds shall be removed from the possession and 
control of the State societies. 

" 3. That the delegates to the next General Meeting be furnished 
with an attested copy of the preceding votes for their instruction 
and government ; and that in any other alterations which may be 
proposed the Society confide in their discretion and judgment to 
make such decision as shall promote the honor and interests of 
the Institution." 

The report was accepted, and the yotes were adopted. 

1800, Jan. 15. At a special meeting it was ordered "that 
the members of the Society continue to wear a black 
crape cockade in the hat till the 5th day of July ne.xt, as 



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a badge of mourning for their deceased President-general, 
George Washington; " and " tliat the Standing Committee 
appoint some member of the Society to dehver an oration at 
the annual meeting on the fourth of July next, commemora- 
tive of the American Revolution, and of the virtues and 
talents which distinguished the eventful life of the illustrious 
Washington." ' 

1800, July 4. It was ordered, that the Standing Committee 
procure three hundred printed copies of the original Insti- 
tution, together with the names of the original members of 
the State association. - 

1801, July4. It was ordered, that the Standing Commit- 
tee consist of fifteen members, and that seven members form 
a quorum for granting money. Also that no person be ad- 
mitted a member of the Society until he shall have attained 
the age of twenty-one years. 

1802, July 5. It was ordered that persons hereafter ad- 
mitted, in right of succession, as members, subscribe a form 
of declaration, to the effect that they are sons or next eldest 
male heirs of deceased members, and that they will be gov- 
erned by the rules of the Society. 

1803, July 4. The Standing Committee was " instructed to 
prefer a memorial to the Legislature for an act of incorpora- 
tion to enable the Society the better to hold and manage their 
funds. ^ 

1805, July 4. " The Standing Committee to whom was re- 
ferred the petition of General Rufus Putnam, and our other 
brethren resident in the State of Ohio, — praying that a cer- 

' It does not appear that an oration was delivered in accordance with this 
vote ; that before the town authorities, July 4, was delivered by Joseph Hall, 
Esq. 

- Published in 1801, — ten pages. No copy of this publication can be found 
among the Society's collections. There was one in the Barlow library which 
was sold in New York in February, iSgo. 

^ The Act was passed May 13, 1S06. See Appendix. 



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tain proportion of this State Society's funds, equal to what 
they, the petitioners, originally subscribed and paid in, may 
be refunded and transmitted them for the purpose of forming 
a fund for a Society of Cincinnati, which they have thought 
proper to create in that State, — after having maturely con- 
sidered the subject of said petition, and given it all that 
deliberate and candid attention justly due to their distant and 
respected brothers, unanimously report adversely to the said 
petition, for the following reasons : — 

" I. By the Constitution of the Society it was clearly intended to 
form one family of brethren, to consist of thirteen cantons, and no 
more, for ever. Nor is there any provision, either expressed or im- 
plied, given either to the General Meeting or to either of the State 
societies, to create any additional society, or to transfer any part 
of the original funds for this purpose.' 

" 2. The stock of the Massachusetts Cincinnati was expressly sub- 
scribed and paid into the treasury for the exclusive use of the mem- 
bers of that State Society, so long as they should continue members, 
and no longer. Could a few individuals detach themselves and erect 
another State society, others might withdraw themselves and funds, 
and erect branches in the same State ; and thus the strength and 
respectability of the original institution would be weakened, and one 
of its most important objects be defeated. 

" 3. Should the request of the memorialists be acceded to, we 
should set a precedent which might render us obnoxious to the cen- 
sure of other State societies, and our authority so to act disputed and 
denied by the General Society, and thus a spirit of discord be intro- 
duced to the infinite detriment of that union upon which the common 
good of our institution is so dependent. 

" Whilst bound to state this our dissent to a novel, and what we 
must consider an irregular proposal, we wish our worthy brethren 
of Ohio, our faithful comrades in honor and in toil, to be assured of 
our unabated friendship ; that we hold their subscriptions as a sacred 
deposit for their benefit, in common with the other members ; and 
that if misfortune at any time should compel an appHcation for pecu- 

' See the action of tlie General Society at meetinc;'^ in 1829 and 1 8S4, a^/i". 



52 ANXALS OF THE 

niary aid, we will most cheerfully and promptly give to it all the weight 
which the individual would be entitled to were he an inhabitant of 
any part of this Commonwealth." 

1806, July 4. Regulations were adopted, which in iSii 
were incorporated into the By-laws of the Society. 

1806, Aug. 5. It was ordered by the Standing Committee, 
" That as a mark of respect to the memory of our deceased 
friend and brother, Thomas Edwards, Esq., our Secretary, 
and Judge-Advocate-General of the late Revolutionary army, 
the Society be requested to attend his funeral on the 
morrow." 

1806, Oct. 13. The Society, in testimony of their sense of 
the faithful services of General Henry Jackson, as their Treas- 
urer for twenty-three years, " in which time their funds have 
been preserved in a manner equally honorable to him and 
satisfactory to the Society," voted him " a silver cup not 
exceeding two hundred dollars in value," engraved with 
the arms of the Society. The cup was ordered from Eu- 
rope, but was not received until February, 18 10, some time 
after General Jackson's decease. 

1806, Nov. 21. The Standing Committee recommended to 
the members of the Society to wear black crape on the left 
arm for thirty days in testimony of their affection and respect 
for their deceased friend, Major-General Henry Knox, late 
Vice-President-General of the Society. 

1808, July 4. The Committee to whom were referred let- 
ters from Lieutenant-Colonel Bayard and others at Pittsburg, 
and also of Matthew McConnell and others at Philadelphia, on 
the subject of an application to Congress for compensation on 
account of the depreciated currency, in which they were paid 
the commutation of five years' pay, reported it " not expedient 
to join in the application." 

" 1809, Jan. 6. The Standing Committee of the Cincinnati have 
the painful task of announcing to the Society the death of their old 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 53 

friend and companion, General Henry Jackson. His services and 
his usefulness as a member of the Institution from its earliest estab- 
lishment as an active member of the Committee ; as the Treasurer, 
who has preserved and managed the funds for nearly twenty-six 
years, are recorded in the prosperity of the Society and in the grate- 
ful hearts of his brother officers. Sensible of his worth and afflicted 
by his death, the Committee recommend an observance of the follow- 
ing votes as the last token of respect from his surviving brethren : 

" That the Society walk in procession at the funeral of their late 
Treasurer, General Henry Jackson, on Saturday next ; that the usual 
emblem of mourning be attached to the Badge of the Society, and 
that black crape be worn on the left arm." 

18 10, May 9. Upon receiving news of the death of the 
President of the Society, General BENJAMIN LINCOLN, it 
was ordered that the Society attend his funeral at Hing- 
ham, and that the members wear black crape on the left 
arm for thirty days. 

July 4. General John Brooks was chosen President, to fill 
the place of General Lincoln, who had presided over the 
Society from its organization in 1783, to May, 1810, "with 
the entire approbation of every member, and the grateful 
tribute of his surviving comrades, for his happy guidance and 
affectionate attentions during so long a period." The thanks 
of the Society were presented to Dr. Eustis for his long 
services as Vice-President of the Society.' 

i8li,July4. By-laws were reported and accepted by the 
Society.^ 

In 1 8 12 the Society caused a copy of its Institution, pro- 
ceedings, and list of members to be prepared, four hundred 
of which were printed. 

1 The election of Brooks to be President instead of Eustis, who was in the 
line of promotion, was a surprise to both of the men, and brolce the friendship 
which had formerly existed between them. Eustis knew that Brooks had not 
sought the position ; but he thought that Brooks ought not to have .iccepted it 
under the circumstances. .Some years afterward a reconciliation took place; 
and in 1S23 Eustis succeeded Brooks as Governor of the Commonwealth. 

''■ Printed in the Appendix, with alterations subsequently made. 



54 ANNALS OF THE 

1813, July 4. Dr. Stephen Thayer having presented to the 
Society a portrait of General Henry Jackson, the Secretary, 
Dr. Townsend, thus acknowledged the gift : — 

" Sir, — The Secretary of the State Society of Massachusetts has 
been specially instructed to return you their thanks for the portrait 
you have been so good as to present them, of the late General Henry 
Jackson, their former Treasurer, and to assure you that they shall pre- 
serve it as a precious relic, annually to remind them how much they 
are indebted to the integrity and care of that excellent deceased officer 
and brother." ^ 

181 7, July 4. The Society proceeded in a body to the 
Exchange Coffee House, the head-quarters of James Mon- 
roe, President of the United States, then visiting Boston, and 
presented to him the following congratulatory address : — 

" Sir, — While meeting you as one of our most distinguished 
brothers, permit us especially to thank you for furnishing an oppor- 
tunity of saluting another chief magistrate of the United States taken 
from our ranks, and to offer you all the assurance of respect and 
affection which it becomes a society like ours to present, and which 
we pray you to accept as flowing from hearts first united by the 
powerful sympathies of common toils and dangers. 

" Although time is fast reducing our original associates, we trust 
that while one remains he will never desert the standard of freedom 
and his country, nor our sons forget the sacred duties their sires had 
sworn to discharge. We fought to obtain security, self-government, 
and political happiness; and the man who can approve both the 
principles and the means can never be indifferent to the social 
designs which such a warfare contemplated, for among those pur- 
poses were included the restoration of good humor, good man- 
ners, good neighborhood, political integrity, with a spirit of mild 
and manly patriotism. 

" We congratillate you, as the highest representative of our beloved 
country, that party animosity has on all sides so far subsided before 

1 The portrait is deposited with the New England Historic-Genealogical 
Society. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 55 

the day-star of sound national policy, and we look with confidence to 
a wise and liberal administration of the presidency to produce its ter- 
mination. .\nd now, sir, on bidding you a long farewell, — for from 
our lessening number such another occasion can scarcely again occur, 
— we join our best wishes that you shall seek a retreat from the honor- 
able fatigues of public energies in which so large a portion of your life 
has been employed, that your retirement may be accompanied by the 
applause of the wise and the concurrent blessings of a prosperous and 
united Republican Empire." 

To this address the President made the following reply: 

" The affectionate address of my brothers of the Cincinnati awakens 
in my mind the most grateful emotions. 

" No approbation can be more dear to me than that of those with 
whom I have had the honor to share the common toils and perils 
of the war for our independence : we were embarked in the same 
sacred cause of liberty, and we have lived to enjoy the reward of our 
common labors. Many of our companions-in-arms fell in the field 
before our Independence was achieved, and many less fortunate than 
ourselves lived not to witness the perfect fulfilment of their hopes in 
the prosperity and happiness of our country. You do but justice to 
yourselves in claiming the confidence of your country, that you can 
never desert the standard of freedom. You fought to obtain it in 
times when men's hearts and principles were severely tried ; and vour 
public sacrifices and honorable actions are the best pledges of your 
sincere and devoted attachment to our excellent Constitution. 

" May your children never forget the sacred duties devolved on 
them, to preserve the inheritance so gallantly acquired by their 
fathers. May they cultivate the same manly patriotism, the same 
disinterested friendship, and the same political integrity which has 
distinguished you, and that unite in perpetuating the social concord 
and public virtue on which the future prosperity of our country must 
so essentially depend. I feel most deeply the truth of the melan- 
choly suggestion, that we shall probably meet no more. While, how- 
ever, we remain in life, I shall continue to hope for your countenance 
and support, so far as my public conduct may entitle me to your 
confidence ; and in bidding you farewell, I pray a kind Providence 



56 ANNALS OF THE 

long to presen'e your valuable lives for the honor and benefit of 
our country." 

The Society then accompanied the President to the Old 
South Meeting House, where the annual oration was de- 
livered ; after which, in compliance with an invitation from 
the supreme executive, they paid their respects to the Gov- 
ernor and Council of the Commonwealth at the State House, 
where they partook of a " sumptuous " collation, at which 
the President was an honored guest. 

1824. Upon La Fayette's arrival in Boston, in August of 
this year, the Society joined in the procession which received 
him on his entrance into the city. He was escorted by the 
Boston regiment to the head of the mall on Tremont Street, 
where the scholars of the public schools were drawn up to 
receive him. Taking up his residence in the mansion on the 
corner of Beacon and Park Streets, he appeared upon the 
balcony, with Governor Eustis and ex-Governor Brooks on 
either side of him, clad in their old continental uniforms, 
while the troops composing the escort passed in review. 

On Friday, August 26, the Society proceeded in a body 
to the headquarters of General La Fayette, where the follow- 
ing address, written by General Brooks, was read to him : 

" Sir, — The Society of Cincinnati of Massachusetts seize the 
earliest moment, after your arrival in this city, of extending to you 
the hand of friendship and affection. We offer you our most cordial 
congratulations on your safe arrival again, after a lapse of forty years, 
on the shores of our favored country, — once the theatre of our 
united toils, privations, and combats with a powerful foe ; now the 
peaceful domain of a great, a free, and independent people. 

" We hail you, sir, in unison with the millions of our fellow- 
citizens, — we most respectfully hail you as a statesman, as a philan- 
thropist, and as the early, inflexible, and devoted friend not only of 
our beloved country, but of the sacred principles of civil liberty and 
human rights. But we greet you under more tender and hallowed 
associations in the endearing relation of a brother soldier wlio in 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 57 

the ardor of youth commenced in the field with us your career of 
glory in the holy cause of liberty and American Independence. But 
here recollections crowd upon us too powerful for utterance. Words 
would but mock the deep emotions of our hearts, should we attempt 
to express them in contemplating the character, attributes, and 
services of the paternal chief under whose auspices we trod together 
the field of honor. To the profound veneration and love for his 
memory which penetrates your bosom, we refer you as a transcript 
of our own. It would be vain to imagine the joy that would swell 
the great mind of Washington, were he still living, to recognize with 
our nation the generous disinterestedness, the glowing ardor, the 
personal sacrifices, and the gallant achievements of his much-loved 
La Fayette. 

" But it is equally vain to endeavor on this occasion to exclude 
such reflections from the mind, or to deny it the melancholy pleasure 
of lingering on the solemn reality, that not a single individual of the 
general staff of the army of the American Revolution survives to 
participate in the joy that your presence in the United States has 
awakened. 

" To us it is peculiarly grateful that you are permitted, after the 
lapse of so long a period, to witness the consummation of the prin- 
ciples of our Revolution. You will perceive, sir, that the hopes 
and predictions of the wise and good men who were your particular 
associates in the arduous struggle have been fulfilled, have been 
surpassed. You will behold a great people united in their principles 
of jurisprudence, cemented together by the strong ties of mutual 
interests, and happy under the fostering influence of a free and 
energetic government. 

" You will therefore allow us to reiterate our felicitations on your 
safe arrival among us, and to welcome you once more to the good 
land which your youthful valor contributed to elevate and distinguish. 
May your future life be tranquil and happy, as your past has been 
useful, uniform, and glorious." 

To this address La Fayette thus replied : — 

"Amidst the inexpressible enjoyments which press upon my head, 
I could not but feel particularly eager and happy to meet my beloved 
brothers-in-arms. 



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" Many, many, I call in vain ; and at their head our matchless 
paternal chief, whose love to an adopted son I am proud to say you 
have long witnessed. 

" But while we mourn together for those we have lost, while I find 
a consolation in the sight of their relations and friends, it is to me a 
delightful gratification to recognize my surviving companions of our 
Revolutionary army, — that army so brave, so virtuous, so united by 
mutual confidence and affection. That we have been the faithful 
soldiers of independence, freedom, and equality, — those three es- 
sential requisites of national and personal dignity and happiness ; that 
we have lived to see these sacred principles secured to this vast re- 
public, and cherished elsewhere by all generous minds, — shall be 
the pride of our life, the boast of our children, the comfort of our last 
moments. Receive, my dear brother soldiers, the grateful thanks and 
constant love of your old companion and friend." 

1825, March 2. At a special meeting to take action on 
the death of General John Brooks, President of the Society, 
resolutions were adopted recognizing "his public services and 
private virtues, and especially his faithful and honorable dis- 
charge of the duties of President of this Society during the 
period of fifteen successive years, in which he manifested the 
same pure and ardent devotion to the interests of his Revolu- 
tionary compatriots, and to the cause of civil liberty, by which 
his whole life had been invariably distinguished." It was or- 
dered that the Society attend his funeral, and wear the usual 
badge of mourning for thirty days. 

1825, July 4. Dr. David Townsend was chosen President, 
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of General 
Brooks. 

1828, July 4. At the annual dinner, which was this year 
set at Fenno's Hotel in Cornhill Square, the Society "were 
joined," says its record, " by several old members whom they 
had not met for many years, among whom were Colonel 
Trumbull [the painter] of New York, Colonel Rice of Ver- 
mont, and General John K. Smith of Maine ; and adjourned 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 59 

after a social afternoon (during which they were honored by a 
visit from his Excellency the Governor and suite, agreeably to 
invitation) spent amidst grateful recollections of the past and 
anticipations of future national blessings and prosperity." 

1829, July 4. Major Judah Alden was chosen President 
in place of Dr. David Townsend, whose decease was duly 
noticed. 

1834, July 4. Resolutions were read and adopted, relative 
to the decease of La Fayette, " the consistent and uniform 
friend of civil liberty, for whose public and private virtues, 
for whose heroic deeds and generous sacrifices for the welfare 
of mankind, his memory will be cherished in our hearts with 
sentiments of the highest respect." A copy of the resolu- 
tions, together with a letter of condolence, was forwarded by 
the Society to the bereaved family. 

General Benjamin Pierce, in a letter to the President of the 
Society, dated June 26, 1837, resigning the Vice-Presidency 
in consequence of a paralytic shock in the preceding Febru- 
ary, thanks the members for the kindness and attention re- 
ceived at their hands, " having," he says, " for a long time 
passed the happiest day of almost every year in the circle of 
its members ; " and he concluded by expressing the hope 
that " no distribution of its funds may take place while there 
shall be a widow or the immediate family of any officer 
standing in need of assistance." 

1843, June 17. The Society participated in the celebration 
on this day of the completion of Bunker Hill Monument. A 
grand procession, composed of the military, various associa- 
tions, delegations from the States, members of the national 
and State governments, including the President of the United 
States and about one hundred of the veterans of the Revolu- 
tion, moved from the State House to Monument Square. 
Daniel Webster was the orator, and at least one hundred 
thousand people were assembled upon the spot. 



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1845, July 4. Captain James Sever was elected President 
in place of Major Judah Alden, deceased, whose worth is thus 
recognized in the records of the Society : — 

" It having pleased Almighty God to remove from this world the 
soul of the late venerable President of this Society, Major Judah 
Alden ; and whereas his death has diminished by one more those 
few links which visibly unite us to the times and deeds of our 
Fathers ; and whereas this deceased brother of our Fathers was one 
of those few men whose stern honesty prove that ' an honest man 's 
the noblest work of God ; ' and also whereas our deceased President 
was in a direct line, and was in local habitation a descendant of 
those original settlers whose feet first pressed the stern bosom of 
Plymouth Rock, — therefore Resolved, That we contemplate our 
loss with sadness and solemnity, as one of no ordinary character ; 
and further Resolved, That we cling to our original members with 
more tenacity, more respect, and more affection, the more dimin- 
ished they become ; and also Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize 
with the family of our veteran and venerable brother, and tender to 
them our cordial condolence." 

At this meeting the following vote was adopted : — 

" That the admission of honorary members of the Cincinnati, for 
life only, shall be confined to those who shall be the lineal descend- 
ants or representatives of those who were distinguished by eminent 
military virtue and service in the Revolutionary War. 

" In consideration of the eminent patriotism and military conduct 
of Colonel Prescott, Commander at Bunker Hill, who did not con- 
tinue in service so as to become an original member of the Society, 
and of the conspicuous merit of his grandson and eldest male de- 
scendant, William H. Prescott, whose genius as a historian has cast 
so much lustre upon the literature of his country and the character 
of his ancestry, it is unanimously voted that William H. Prescott be 
admitted an honorary member of the Cincinnati of Massachusetts." 

1846, July 4. Colonel Henry Burbeck was elected President, 
in place of Captain James Sever, whose character and ser- 
vices arc properly noticed in the Society's records. 



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1847, July 5. It was voted that " in token of the eminent 
virtue of Dr. John C. Warren, the nearest representative of 
the name and blood of the martyred patriot who fell in the 
first great battle of American Freedom, and of his own kin- 
dred zeal and general benevolence for mankind, as well as 
that his worthy Father also was an officer who served faith- 
fully in the army of the Revolution, he be admitted an 
honorary member f>f this Society." 

It was also voted " that in the election of honorary mem- 
bers it is distinctly understood by the Society that such 
election does not confer the right of an original member, 
or give any honorary member any title to any portion of the 
funds of the Society; nor are they entitled to vote or eli- 
gible to any office." 

1848, Oct. 3. At a special meeting called on account of 
the death of President Burbeck (the last of the original mem- 
bers who held that office), appropriate resolutions were passed, 
and a delegation appointed to attend his funeral at New Lon- 
don, Conn. This aged veteran, then in his ninety-fourth year, 
and who had been thirty-eight years in the military service of 
his country, sent to the Society, June 8, 1848, the following 
sentiment, which was read at the annual dinner: — 

" The original ' Society of the Cincinnati,' — the forlorn hope in es- 
tablishing the Independence of these United States of America. By 
their example may their successors labor to preserve and perpetuate 
the liberties that their patriotism acquired." 

The Society erected a granite obelisk to the memory of 
General Burbeck in Cedar Grove Cemetery, near New Lon- 
don, Conn. 

1849, July 4. Robert G. Shaw was chosen President of 
the Society. At the annual dinner, among many interesting 
reminiscences of the patriots of the Revolution, particularly 
those of Dr. Warren, Mr. Thomas Jackson read the eulogium 



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pronounced by the late Hon. Harrison G. Otis in the Legisla- 
ture of Massachusetts, on Major-General Heath, " the com- 
panion of Washington, the honest patriot, the Christian 
soldier; " and it was voted to have the same inserted in 
the Record Book of the Society. 

185 1, July 4. A feeling and eloquent tribute was paid by 
the Rev. A. L. Baury to the memory of Thomas Jackson, 
many years Secretary of the Society, whose " manly honesty, 
Saxon simplicity, genuine rectitude of purpose, and earnest 
philanthropy " entitle him to grateful remembrance. 

At this meeting the Hon. Daniel Webster was admitted as 
an honorary member, and the following entry was made on 
the records : — 

" In laying down in peace arms assumed for the establishment 
of freedom and independence, the first principles upon which our 
fathers founded this institution at their last cantonment on the North 
River as its ' immutable basis ' having been ' an unalterable deter- 
mination to promote and cherish between the respective States that 
union and national honor so essential and necessary to their happi- 
ness and the future dignity of the American Empire,' joined to ' an 
incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and 
liberties of human nature, for which they had fought and bled, and 
without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of 
a blessing,' and deeming that there would always be men in those 
States eminent for abilities and patriotism directed to the same laud- 
able objects as those of the Cincinnati,' — providing likewise for the 
admission of such characters as honorary members ; and this Society 
having recognized the birthright which eminent civil virtue may in- 
herit from military worth in the War of the Revolution, in the honors 
it has paid only to the blood of Prescott and Warren ; — 

" And as the Hon. Daniel Webster has shed a fresh glory around 
Bunker Hill, and has cast a filial lustre upon the honest fame of a 
brave and patriotic sire, who fought on the memorable' day of Ben- 
nington, in extending and acknowledging the bond of fraternal affinity, 
we would mark our sense of his own distinguished character and ser- 
vices, as well as our respect for the sacred principles of the Institution, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 63 

by inscribing his name upon its honored roll, and accordingly elect 
him an honorary member." 

A special meeting of the Society was held on Oct. 26, 1852, 
to take action on the death of Daniel Webster. Resolutions 
were adopted, and the members were requested to wear crape 
for thirty days. 

1852, July 5. The death of the Vice-President, Dr. Joseph 
Prescott, the last survivor of the original members, was an- 
nounced; and resolutions were adopted, testifying to his 
learning, ability, and merit, as well as to his courteous 
and gentlemanly bearing. 

1853, July 4. Charles S. Daveis, of Portland, was chosen 
President of the Society, to succeed Robert G. Shaw, de- 
ceased. Resolutions were adopted commending Mr. Shaw's 
active benevolence and warm sympathies, and it was voted 
that for si.x months the members wear badges of mourning 
at all their meetings. 

1854, July 4. The rules respecting the succession and ad- 
mission of members, adopted at the General Meeting of the 
Society at Baltimore, May 17, were unanimously adopted by 
the Society of Massachusetts, as the basis of future action. 
These provide that each Society shall have the full right and 
power to regulate the terms and qualifications for the admis- 
sion of members, providing that admission be confined to the 
male descendants of original members (including collateral 
branches) ; or to the male descendants of such officers of the 
army or navy as may have been entitled to admission, but 
who failed to avail themselves thereof within the time pre- 
scribed ; or to the male descendants of such officers of the 
army or navy of the Revolution as may have resigned with 
honor or left the service with reputation ; or to the male col- 
lateral relative of any officer who died in service, without 
leaving issue; and that the male descendants of those who 



64 ANNALS OF THE 

were members of State societies which have been dissolved 
may be admitted into existing societies. 

1855, July 4. Ordered that the amount to be paid to 
the Society by members admitted under the new ordinances 
adopted at the last meeting be 5340.' 

1856, July 4. It was ordered that such new member as 
had no ancestor who had joined the Society at its original 
formation, and who neglects or refuses to pay the entrance 
money, shall thereby cut off his own claim and the claim of 
any descendant to admission at a future time until the amount 
has been paid. The same rule applies to such members as 
shall pay in part and not in whole. And it was further or- 
dered, in 1858, tiiat such delinquent member shall not be 
considered as acquiring or having acquired any more than 
a life interest in said Society, nor be regarded as trans- 
mitting any claim, right, interest, or privilege whatever 
until the specified sum has been paid. 

At this meeting ^the Society took appropriate notice of 
the decease of their distinguished associate, Dr. John C. 
Warren, admitted as an honorary member in 1847, and a 
regular member in 1854. 

1858, Nov. 23. President Daveis addressed the Society, 
paying a feeling tribute to the memory and services of its 
late Secretary, Adams Bailey; the Society also expressing 
its sense of bereavement by appropriate resolutions. 

In 1859 a new edition of the Institution, Proceedings, etc., 
was printed for the Society. 

1862, July 4. The Committee appointed to consider the 
subject of grants of pecuniary aid to the original members 
and their descendants, and as to the policy to be hereafter 
observed in making them, after expressing the opinion that 
the term " orphan " was used by the founders of the Society 

1 This amount was increased in 1S72 to $700. For the amount of pay of each 
sjrade, see note to tiie *' Institution," in Historical Sketch. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 65 

in an extended sense, meaning by it their children after their 
decease, without reference to their being minors, reported the 
following rule, which was adopted : — 

" That all grants of aid hereafter to be made by the Standing Com- 
mittee shall be confined to the children of original members, and to 
such members and the widows and children of such members ' as 
may be under the necessity of receiving it.' " * 

A resolution was adopted at this meeting expressing regret 
at the death of a venerable associate, the Rev. David Smith, 
of Connecticut, aged ninety-five ; " the last link which con- 
nected the men of the present generation with the men of 
the Revolution." 

1865, July 4. At the annual meeting resolutions ex- 
pressive of the sorrow of the members at the loss of their 
President, Charles S. Daveis, and of the Assistant-Treas- 
urer, John Bryant, were placed upon the Society's records. 
The Rev. Alfred L. Baury, D.D., was chosen President; he 
died in December following. 

1866, July 4. Rev. Dr. Baury, having died in December, 
1865, resolutions of respect to his memory, and in recogni- 
tion of the value of his services to the Society were adopted. 
Colonel James W. Sever was chosen as his successor. 

1870, July 4. Suitable resolutions were adopted and placed 
on record, testifying the respect of the Society for its deceased 
Vice-President, Dr. Winslow Warren ; also for the late Frank- 
lin Pierce, ex-President of the United States, Dr. B. F. Hey- 
wood, and Zibeon Hooker, late member of the Standing 
Committee. 

1 87 1, July 4. Resolutions of respect for the memory of 
the late President, Colonel James W. Sever, and of sym- 
pathy with his widow, were adopted ; and an eloquent and 

■ Repealed in 1SS7. See the action of the General Society in 1884. 
S 



66 ANNALS OF THE 

touching tribute was paid to his memory by Dr. Samuel Hart, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., his classmate and life-long friend. 

At this meeting Rear-Admiral Henry Kno.x Thatcher was 
elected President. 

1872, July 4. The Vice-President, Samuel C. Cobb, on 
behalf of the special Committee appointed in 1871 to pre- 
pare a new edition of the Institution and Proceedings of 
the Society, presented a catalogue of the members, com- 
piled by Mr. Francis S. Drake, and asked for further time 
to prepare the proposed memorial volume. 

Dr. Samuel Hart, of Brooklyn, N. Y., read a written com- 
munication on Revolutionary Claims, drawn up by the Rev. 
Dana Clayes, who afterward addressed the Society verbally 
on the subject. 

The Triennial Meeting of the General Society was held in 
Boston, May 29, 1872. The delegates were the guests of the 
Massachusetts Society, by whom they were entertained at a 
banquet given in their honor. At this meeting all the existing 
State Societies were represented. 

1877, July 4. The following rule was adopted : — 

" The succession and admission to membership of this Society 
shall descend to the heir male unless for satisfactory reasons another 
be chosen, in which case the membership shall extend to the life 
only of the person so elected ; and at his decease the then existing 
heir male of the original member shall be the person first to be 
considered on a new election." 

1878, July 4. Mr. William Perkins stated that he was no 
longer able to serve the Society as treasurer; and on motion 
of Mr. Cobb it was voted that the thanks of the Society be 
tendered to him for the very able and satisfactory manner in 
which he had conducted its financial affairs during his service 
of thirty-one years, — -a service characterized by great fidelity 
to dut)% by remarkable business sagacity, and by a graceful 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 67 

urbanity toward the members and beneficiaries. A commit- 
tee was appointed to procure and present to Mr. Perkins a 
piece of silver plate. 

Winslow Warren, Esq., was elected Treasurer to fill the 
vacancy caused by the declination of Mr. Perkins; and David 
Greene Haskins, Jr., Esq., was chosen Assistant Secretary in 
place of Mr. Warren. 

At this meeting the following rule was adopted : — 

" That a Committee of Finance, to consist of three members, be 
elected by ballot annually. It shall be the duty of this Committee to 
advise the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer in regard to the invest- 
ment of all funds belonging to this Society ; and no investment or 
change of investment shall be made without the concurrence of this 
Committee. The Committee of Finance shall also further audit the 
accounts of the Treasurer before each annual meeting." 

1880, April 6. A special meeting of the Society was called 
to take action on the death of its President, Rear-Admiral 
Henry Knox Thatcher. The Vice-President, Hon. Samuel 
C. Cobb, made an address, and resolutions prepared by Rev. 
Dr. Lothrop were adopted. The resolutions stated that in 
his long career in the navy of the United States, an accom- 
plished seaman, a gallant officer, a wise and considerate com- 
mander, a loyal, brave, and patriotic man, of calm, fearless 
courage, ready in the face of danger and of death to do his 
duty at all times and at all hazards, Rear-Admiral Thatcher 
had rendered services to his country at home and abroad, in 
peace and in war, that entitled him to be held in grateful 
honor and remembrance. 

At the annual meeting on the 5th of July following, the 
Hon. Samuel C. Cobb was elected President of the Society; 
Charles D. Homans, M.D., Vice-President; and General 
Francis W. Palfrey, Secretary. 

1881, Oct. 4. A special meeting of the Society was held 
to act on an official invitation extended to the members of 



68 ANNALS OF THE 

the Society to attend the Centennial Celebration at York- 
town. The following members were appointed delegates : 
Mr. President Cobb, Mr. Vice-President Homans, Mr. Treas- 
urer Warren, Mr. Secretary Palfrey, the Rev. Dr. Lothrop, 
Mr. Benjamin Lincoln, General W. Raymond Lee. And it 
was voted that a general invitation to be present at the cele- 
bration be sent to all the members of the Society. Also that 
the Standing Committee should have full powers to entertain 
the French visitors to the Yorktown Celebration should they 
come to Boston. 

1883, July 4. The one hundredth anniversary of the 
organization of the Massachusetts Society was commem- 
orated by an able and eloquent historical address delivered 
by the President, the Hon. Samuel C. Cobb. In closing 
he said : — 

" Standing thus at the opening of the second century of this 
Society's existence, we have just cause to congratulate ourselves 
upon the record it has made. 

" Let us look forward hopefully and confidently to the work that is 
before us, remembering always that to us has been committed for the 
time being all the interests, all the nobly conservative influences and 
associations, of this time-honored Society. 

" A glorious heritage is ours ; but this inheritance imposes upon us 
important duties and responsibilities, which can be neither overlooked 
nor neglected if we would prove ourselves to be worthy of it. 

" There is an old proverb which is to the effect that if we would 
be the equals of our fathers, we should be superior to them ; that 
is to say, as they occupied higher ground than those who preceded 
them, so, to be their equals, we must advance our position beyond 
theirs. 

" Let us see to it that the principles of honor, of a broad patriot- 
ism, and of an unswerving devotion to duty are the cardinal principles 
of our action, not only as members of this brotherhood, but as citizens 
of this republic which our fathers helped to found, and which they 
looked to their descendants to preserve, to strengthen, and to make 
the noblest among the nations of the earth. 



CINCINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 69 

" Then shall an influence for good go forth from this organization 
which shall be worthy of its founders and of their successors ; an in- 
fluence founded upon the everlasting principles of justice, charity, and 
truth, which shall be transmitted in all its strength and fulness to the 
generations which shall succeed us. Esto Perpetua." 

The address was ordered to be printed for distribution to 
the members. As a matter of historical interest the pro- 
gramme of proceedings at the Centennial Dinner, which took 
place at the Parker House at two o'clock p. M., are here 
given: — 

Toasf-masUr David G. H.«kins, Jr. 

Chaplain . . . The Rev. S.^iiUEL K. Lothrop, D.D. 



TOASTS. 

I. Tlie Memory of Washington. (Standing, in Silence.) 
Music : " Washixgtox's Mvrch." 



II. The Day and Year we Celebrate : The Birthday of our Na- 
tion, and the Centennial of our Order. We honor the 
memory of those who declared our Independence and 
of those who fought for it. 

Music : " Hail, Columbia." 



Historical Address by the President, the Hon. Samuel C. Cobb. 
Alusic : " The Marseillaise." 



Address by the Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D. 
III. The Health of our Honored Preside?it : The last President of 
the first century, the first President of the second century 
of our Order. Long may he live in health, honor, and 
prosperity, to preside over the meetings of this Society ! 
Response, by the President. 



"JO ANNALS OF THE 

IV. The Army and Navy of the United Stales ; Few in number, 
but mighty in spirit ; worthy sons of the men of Bunker 
Hill and Valley Forge, of Lake Erie, New Orleans, and 
Buena Vista. 

Music : " The Star-Spangled Banner." 

V. TAe Clergy : Zealous and powerful advocates of the rights of 
man, whether in the pulpit, the forum, or the battle-field, 
in 1776 or 1883. 

" Those who, regardless of an earthly prize, 
Offer their lives a double sacrifice, — 
To God for men, to men for God : that band 
Of noble men, — the Clergy of our land." 

Mnsie. 

Response, by the Rev. James G. Vose, of Providence, 
Rhode Island. 



VI. The Surgeons of 1776, 18 12, 1846, and 1861 : Fearless mes- 
sengers of mercy amidst the horrors of the battle-field ; 
freely shedding their own blood at their country's call ; 
true to-day, as in 1775, to the motto, — " Dulce et de- 
corum est pro patria mori." 
Music. 

Response, by the Vice-President, Charles D. HoiUNS, M.D. 

VII. Plymouth Rock : The stepping-stone from mediaeval traditions 
to modern liberty and equal rights. 

" Like cleaves to like ! The wandering exiles found 
A rock, firm as their wills, on which to rest ; 
No yielding clay, no fiower-besprinkled ground, 
Would suit these men, — stern, tempest-tossed, oppressed. 
The gray old rock, ne'er yielding to their tread, 
Stamped its own impress on the little flock ; 
And we, the children of the noble dead. 
Still thrill with reverence for Plymouth Rock." 

Music : " America." 
Response, by Gamaliel Bradford. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 7 1 

VIII. The Beneficiaries of the Society : The needs of the children 
only strengthen our remembrance of the patriotic deeds 
of the fathers. 

Response, by Winslow Warren. 



IX. Our Brethren of the other State Societies : May the sacred 
ties of sympathy and love that united in their infancy 
the thirteen fair sisters, bind ever closer . together the 
seven survivors in their mature years. 
Music: "Y.'VNKEE Doodle." 

Response, by the Rev. Winslow Warren Sever, 
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Closing Remarks by the Toast-master. 
Music : " AuLD Lang Syne." 



[The two poetical sentiments were written for this occasion by Mrs. Mary 
C. D. Watson, granddaughter of the late Hon. Charles S. Daveis, President of 
the Society ] 



1887, July 4. Resolutions offered by Mr. Edward S. 
Moseley were adopted, stating that the virtues of Dr. Ho- 
mans, late Vice-President of the Society and formerly Sec- 
retary, secured the cordial esteem of all who knew him ; his 
discretion commanded their respect, and the amiability of 
his character secured their affection. A wise physician, a 
judicious counsellor, and a trusted friend, he was an espe- 
cially valuable member of the community; and his profes- 
sional distinction was made manifest by the action of the 
Medical Society of the State, in conferring upon him the 
highest honor in its gift. 

Winslow Warren, Esq., was chosen Vice-President to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Romans; Gamaliel 



72 ANNALS OF THE 

Bradford was chosen Treasurer in place of Mr. Warren ; and 
William Frederick Jones was chosen Assistant Treasurer. 

1889, July 4. The annual reunion had a special interest, as 
it marked the completion of the first hundred years of the 
Republic under a Constitution " framed and established," 
as President Cobb said, " largely through the patriotic and 
wisely directed efforts of the founders of the General Society 
of the Cincinnati. Washington, its first President-General, 
and many of his fellow-members, who with him had sustained 
the shock of battle, were among the foremost actors in the 
various movements which culminated in that more perfect 
union of the States secured by the Federal Constitution." 
The President's address on this occasion was ordered to be 
printed for distribution to the members. 

The subject of printing a new memorial volume of the So- 
ciety was referred to the Standing Committee with full powers. 

1890, July 4. In welcoming the members of the Society 
to the annual meeting, President Cobb said, — 

" We may well congratulate ourselves that the one hundred and 
seventh anniversary of the formation of our Society finds it in a 
highly prosperous condition, carrying out in letter and spirit the 
beneficent purposes of its founders. The recent Centennial Cele- 
brations in commemoration of the adoption of the Constitution and 
of the permanent organization of the different branches of the Na- 
tional Government have called attention anew to the powerful influ- 
ence exerted by the original members of the Cincinnati in securing 
what Chief-Justice Chase very happily defined as ' an indestructible 
Union composed of indestructible States.' " 

The President stated that at the regular meeting of the 
Standing Committee in November, 18S9, the publication of a 
new volume of memorials of the Society was authorized, and 
the work would be ready for delivery early in the autumn. 

David Greene Haskins, Jr., Esq., was elected Secretary of 
the Society, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of 



CINCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. 73 

General Francis \V. Palfrey; and John Homans, 2d, il.D., 
was chosen Assistant Secretary in place of Mr. Haskins. 

It was voted that in accordance with a precedent established 
in 1812, the following persons who had been elected members, 
but who had died before subscribing the declaration in the man- 
ner prescribed by the rules, be placed upon the rolls, namely: 
Henry Bryant, M.D., elected in 1865 ; Brigadier-General Lewis 
Cass Hunt, elected in 1883. 

In accordance with recommendations contained in the 
President's Address, it was voted : — 

(i) That the rules of the Society be amended so that in case a 
person admitted to membership is in active ser\'ice in the army or 
navy of the United States, and is unable to attend the regular meet- 
ing of the Society next following his admission, he may make and 
subscribe the declaration before a notary-public or justice of the 
peace, and transmit the same to the Secretary to be affixed to the 
record book of the Society. 

(2) That the Secretary be authorized to have a copy made of the 
Society's records from 1783 to 1883, and deposited in the library of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

(3) That the President and Mr. Daniel C. Lillie be authorized, in 
behalf of the Society, to erect at North Easton, Mass., a suitable 
monument to mark the grave of Captain- Lieutenant Elisha Har\'ey, 
a gallant officer in the War of the Revolution, and an original mem- 
ber of this Society. 

A declaration made and subscribed in accordance with the 
above-mentioned vote (i) was received from Lieutenant- 
Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S.A., elected in 1876, as the 
successor to the Hon. Charles Sumner. 

On the recommendation of a Committee,^ consisting of 
Charles U. Bell, Benjamin A. Gould, and Charles W. Storey, 
the following resolutions were adopted and incorporated into 
the rules of the Society: — 

1 The recommend.itions were accompanied by an interesting and valuable 
report written by Dr. Gould, which was filed with the Society's papers. 



74 ANNALS OF THE CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

( 1 ) That a failure on the part of any ehgible person to apply for 
admission within a reasonable time after being informed of the exist- 
ence of his claim may be interpreted as a waiver thereof. 

(2) That since a waiver can in any case be regarded only as the 
renunciation of a claim, not as the transfer of a right, none can be 
recognized which would impair the subsequent eligibility of a minor. 

(3) That priority of claim through descendants through a female 
line be construed according to the same rules which govern priority 
in the male line ; namely, those of primogeniture according to the 
common law, so far as applicable. 



Officers of the Society for 1890-1891. 

President. 

HON. SAMUEL CROCKER COBB. 

Vice-President. 

WINSLOW WARREN, Esq. 

Secretary. 

DAVID GREENE HASKINS, Jr., Esq. 

Assistatit Secretary. 

JOHN HOMANS, 2d, M.D. 

Treasnrer. 
GAMALIEL BRADFORD. 

Assistant Treasurer. 
WILLIAM FREDERICK JONES. 

Standing Committee. 

Charles W. Storey. Benjamin Lincoln. 

Benjamin Apthorp Gould. John Collins Warren. 

Edward Strong Moseley. James Gardiner Vose. 

Alexander Williams. Charles Upham Bell. 

Wm. Raymond Lee. Thornton Kirkland Lothrop. 

J. Huntington Wolcott. Thomas Lincoln Casey. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



[The names of original members are printed in black-letter, and are given in 
alphabetical order. The names of hereditary members are given in the order 
of their succession, whether having the same or a different surname.] 



Strpf)cn atjljot. 

He was b. Andover, Mass., 12 Aug. 1749; d. Salem, 12 
Aug. 1 8 13; was a lieut. in Capt. Benj. Farnum's Co. of Col. 
Eben. Francis's reg., 1777. In Capt. Farnum's diary, under 
date of 28 March, 1777, is the following entry: "This day 
Lieut. Stephen Abbot, with about 40 men, marched from 
Andover in order for Bennington." He was com. capt. 28 
May, 1778, in Tupper's (nth) reg.; was at West Point in 
that reg. in 1779-80; was in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. in 
1781-83; was first "Captain Commandant" Salem Cadets, 
com. dated July 10, 1786; maj.-gen. 2d div. Mass. militia, 
1797-1801. After the war he engaged in mercantile pursuits 
in Salem; and was a public-spirited and highly respected 
citizen. 

The descent of Capt. Abbot from George * Abbot, who came from 
Yorkshire about 1640, settled in Andover in 1643, and d. Dec. 1681, 
was through his eldest son John? b. 2 March, 1648, d. 19 March, 
1 72 1, who m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Barker ; Stephen? b. 16 March, 
1678, d. 27 May, 1766, and Sarah, dau. of Ephraim Stevens; and 
Stephen^ (his father), b. 1709, d. Nov. 1768, and Mary, dau. of 
George Abbot. 

Capt. Abbot m. Sept. 24, 1769, Sarah (b. Dec. 3, 1749, d. April 
1 1, 1805), dau. John Croel of Salem. Had three sons (who all died 



78 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

young) and eight daughters. The succession in the Cincinnati is 
from Polly (Mary), the second child, b. June 3, 1772, d. April 26, 
1861. 

STEPHEN ABBOT CHASE. 
Eldest grandson of Capt. Stephen Abbot, whom he succ. 
in 1863; b. 22 Aug. 1796; d. 26 July, 1876. His father, 
Abijah Chase (son of Abner Chase), b. 22 March, 1770, in 
Salem; m. 10 Sept. 1795, Polly (Mary), dau. Capt. Stephen 
Abbot. Stephen Abbot Chase was for many years agent of 
the Newmarket Mfg. Co., and later was the first Superin- 
tendent and Manager of the Eastern Railroad. 

WILLIAM CHASE. 
Brother of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1878; b. 28 
June, 1 813; d. (from an accident at a railroad-crossing in 
Salem) 8 July, 1885. He was a hardware-dealer in Salem. 

FRANCIS CHASE. 
Brother of the two preceding, adm. 1886; b. 15 Dec. 1817; 
was for many years in active service as a civil engineer on 
railroads in Mass., Vt., and N. H. His last active service 
was as Manager of the Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth R. R. 
from 1863 to 1873. Resides in Salem. 

He was of Andover; was com. ensign 19 Oct. 1781 ; and 
was in Sprout's (2d)reg. in 1783. He is probably the person 
of the name b. in Andover 29 Dec. 1759, who d. Lemington, 
Vt, Feb. 1837. 

He was b. Roxbury, Mass., 29 June, 1758; d. Peekskill, 
N. Y., June, 1793; H. U. 1775; surgeon's mate in Wesson's 
(9th) reg. 1777-80; com. surgeon, 14 May, 1781 ; in Tupper's 
(6th) reg. 1783. 





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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 79 

His descent from Henry ' Adams, who d. in Braintree, Mass., Oct. 
1646, was through Henry"' b. 1604, killed in Medfield by the Indians, 
25 Feb. 1675-6, and Elizabeth Paine, killed by accident in 1676; 
Henry^ b. Medfield 19 Nov. 1657, and Prudence, dau. of John 
Frary ; Henry, ^ b. 1 702, who m. Jemima, dau. of Hon. Joshua 
Morse of Medfield; Rev. Amos^ (his father), b. Medfield, i Sept. 
1728, H. U. 1752, settled pastor of the First Church, Roxbury, 
1753, d. Dorchester, 5 Oct. 1775, m. 18 Oct. 1753, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Dea. Henry Prentice. 

The other children of Rev. Amos were : Rev. Thomas, minister 
of Camden, S. C, who d. there 16 Aug. 1797; and Sarah, m. 6 
Oct. 1789, to Giles Richards of Boston, who left numerous de- 
scendants. 

Jiuttalj aiUcn. 

He was b. in Duxbury, Mass., 3 Oct. 1750, on the farm 
still occupied by a descendant of John Alden, the pilgrim, 
who settled there in 163 1 ; d. 2 March, 1845. At the com- 
mencement of the war he was an officer of the minute com- 
pany in Duxbury, and also its clerk ; was com. ensign in 
Cotton's reg. in May, 1775; was 2d-lieut. in Capt. Samuel 
Bradford's Co. same reg. in July, 1775 ; lieut. in Bailey's rcg. 
in 1776; capt. in the same i Jan. 1777; served through the 
war, and at its close received the brevet of major. 

He was dexterous in the use of arms, possessed great 
physical strength, and was a skilful, brave, and prudent of- 
ficer. Vice-President Mass. Soc. Cin. 1825-29; Presi- 
dent from 1829 until his death, in 1845. In 1780 he m. 
VVelthea, dau. of Dea. Peleg Wadsworth, who d. 3 March, 
1841, ae. 81. 

His descent from Hon. John Alden} who m. Priscilla Mullins, 
and d. 12 Sept. 1686, ae. 87, was through Capt. Jonathan;^ b. 1627, 
d. Feb. 1697, and Abigail Hallet ; Col. John^ b. 1680, d. 24 July, 
1739, and Hannah Briggs ; Col. Brtggs* (his father), b. 8 June, 
1723, d. 4 Oct. 1796, and Mercy Wadsworth. The children of 
Maj. Judah and Welthea Alden were — 



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Lucia, 5 Dec. i 780, m. Capt. Silvanus Smith. 

John, 2 Nov. 1784, who inherited the old homestead, m. Mary 
Winsor, and had: Mary, 28 Oct. 181 1 ; John, 14 April, 18 13, 
who m. a Brewster; Henry, 3 Nov. 181 5, who m. Sarah Ann 
Woodward. 

Briggs, 6 Oct. 1786, a sea-captain; d. before his father. 

Mercy, 24 Sept. 1788, m. H. R. Packard, and d. 1840. 

JuDAH, II Aug. 1790, d. 15 Dec. 1792. 

Welthea, 13 Aug. 1792, m. Wm. James of Scituate. 

Hannah, 4 Jan. 1795, d. 1804. 

JuDAH, 9 June, 1797, d. 20 April, 1806. 

Mary Ann, 12 March, 1801. 

Samuel. 

SAMUEL ALDEN, M.D. 

He was the youngest child of Major Judah, whom he succ. 
in 1875; b. Duxbury, 24 Jan. 1803; d. Bridgewater, 5 
July, 1885; H. U. 1821; M.D., Dartmouth, 1825. Was 
for a time connected with the Almshouse, East Cambridge, 
and the Mass. General Hospital. Settled in Bridgewater in 
1825, as practising physician, and remained there until his 
death. He m. Jan. 29, 1829, Mary A. Hyde. Had several 
children. 

AMHERST A. ALDEN. 

He was the third son of Capt. Briggs Alden, and nephew 
of Dr. Samuel, whom he succ. in 1886; b. Duxbury, 15 May, 
1830. He was educated at Partridge Academy, in his na- 
tive town. At the age of seventeen he went to Illinois and 
taught school for a time. While there he made the ac- 
quaintance of Abraham Lincoln, then unknown to fame. 
On returning to Mass., he served for a time as private 
secretary to Daniel Webster. In 1850 he was appointed 
to a clerkship in the Boston Post-Office. He is still con- 
nected with the postal service, having been promoted to 
the charge of a division in the Boston Office. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 8 1 

He m. Aug. i, 1852, Georgina M., dau. of Peleg Cook. Chil- 
dren: Carrie M., b. 4 Sept. 1853; Jennie D., b. 4 April, 1856. 

WatJjanifl Qtoit STlUn. 

He was b. New Gloucester, Me., 29 Aug. 1759; was a 
lieut. and paym. in Marshall's (lOth) reg. in 1777; com. 
capt. 12 Oct. 1782; in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1783. He re- 
sided in New Gloucester, Me., which he represented in the 
Me. Legislature in 1 800-2; and was a Justice of the Peace 
in Cumberland Co. from 1801 to his death in Sept. 18 19, at 
the Insane Asylum, Charlestown, Mass. 

His descent from Joseph,^ who came to Gloucester in 1674, d. 
6 Oct. 1724, se. 71, who m. in 1680 Rachel Griggs, was through 
Joseph?\i. 1681, d. 6 April, 1 750, who m. Mary Coit ; Capt. William * 
(his father), b. 171 7, an early settler of New Gloucester, who had 

thirteen children. 

He enlisted from Tyringham ; was a lieut. in Fellows's reg. 
at the siege of Boston, May, 1775; ist lieut. in Asa Whit- 
comb's (6th) reg. 1776: com. capt. 16 Oct. 1776; in Wig- 
glesworth's, afterwards Calvin Smith's (13th) reg. 1777-80; 
in Vose's (ist) reg. from 1 78 1 until promoted major, and 
deranged i Aug. 1782. He was a pensioner, living in 
Mass. in 1820, but d. soon after, as a son, Ezra, of Whiting, 
Vt., applied for admission to the Society in 1823. 

jotf)am ^tncs. 

He was b. Bridgewater, Mass., 15 Oct. 1743 ; was a sergt. 
from May to 31 Dec. 1775 in D. Lothrop's Co. of Bailey's 
(2d) reg. ; also in Jacob Allen's Co. of Gary's reg. in N. Y. 
9 Aug. 1776; com. lieut. in Bailey's reg. i Jan. 1777; and 
on the fall of his capt. (Jacob Allen), at Stillwater, took com- 
mand of the company, and retained it until the peace. He 
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82 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

resided in W. Bridgewater until about 1C02, when he re- 
moved to Middlefieid, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he d. 9 May, 
1812. He was twice m., but left no descendants. 

His descent from William ^ of Braintree, b. 6 Oct. 1605, d. 1 1 Jan. 
1654, and Elizabeth Hayward, was through John^ b. 24 March 1647, 
d. W. Bridgewater, 1726, and Sarah, dau. of Dea. John Willis ; Capt. 
Thomas^ b. 21 Feb. 1682, d. 3 Feb. 1737 ; Solomon'^ (his father), 
b. 16 Jan. 1709, d. 12 July, 1745. 

JSaaflUam STntirciDS. 

He was com. 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery i Feb. 1777, 
1st lieut. 13 Sept. 1780; taken prisoner, i June, 1779, at 
Fort La Fayette on the Hudson near Stony Point, and ex- 
changed 19 March, 1781. He d. at Cambridgeport, Mass., 
14 March, 1816, se. 6"] . A dau. Elizabeth Rush was living in 
Boston in 1850. 

Samuel artnstronij. 

He was b. Boston, 10 Aug. 1754; d. there 10 Dec. iSlO. 
With his brother John and his father (Col. John), he was 
in the battles at Brooklyn and at Harlem, where the latter 
was killed. Com. ensign in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. i Jan., 
and lieut. 7 Oct. 1777; adjutant same reg. i June, 1778- 
31 Dec. 1779; lieut. and paym. from i Jan. 1780, to the 
peace. He joined Maj. Dearborn's light infantry at Still- 
water, 12 Sept. 1777, and was in the battles w'ith Burgoyne, 
and endured the privations of Valley Forge. ASSIST. Sec. 
Mass. Soc. Cin. i 798-1 806. 

He was the son of Col. John Armstrong and Christian Bass, who 
descended from John Bass and Ruth Alden. His brother, Capt. 
John, was the father of Lieut.-Gov. Samuel T. Armstrong. Six 
members of this family served in the war of 18 12. By his wife 
Nancy, only dau. of Major Josiah Allen (b. 21 Sept. 1765, d. 11 
April, 1829), he had — 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 83 

Samuel, who succ. to membership in the Society. 

James, d. 28 July, 1848, leaving children. 

George W., b. Boston, 22 Feb. 1792, d. 23 March, 1867. He 

was a heut. 40th U. S. reg. in the war of 181 2. 
Eliza Caroline. 

SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Samuel, whom he succ. 1811 ; b. 
Boston, 5 Feb. 1786; d. in service at Governor's Island, 8 
Sept. 18 19; app. ensign, 4th U. S. inf. 15 April, 18 12; 2d 
Heut. Sept. 1812; ist lieut. March, 18 14; served in the 
battle of Tippecanoe, and was afterwards successively aide 
to Generals Porter and Scott. Unm. 

JHoscs Sr!8i)lfS. 

He was b. Stockbridge, Mass., in 1751; d. Lee, Mass., 
25 Aug. 1791 ; grad. Yale Coll. 1767; entered the army- 
early in 177s as a lieut. in Paterson's r^g. at the siege of 
Boston; com. capt. (same reg.) 5 Nov. 1775; in Vose's (ist) 
reg. from 1777 until promoted major, 6 Jan. 1780; afterwards 
in Putnam's (5th) reg. ; and retired from the service with 
reputation, i Jan. 1783. He left a wife and three children. 

3oi}n Austin. 

He was a conductor of military stores from i Jan. 1777; 
was com. 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, 17 May, 1780; and d. 
a few years after the war. 

His descent from Richard^ tailor (1662), Charlestown (probably 
son of Richard who came in the " Bevis " from Southampton, 1638), 
and Abigail, dau. of Wm. Bachelder, was through James,^ b. at 
Charlestown, 27 June, 1679, d. 23 June, 1741, who m. Mary, dau. 
of Capt. Peter and Elizabeth (Lynde) Tufts; John* (father of 
John and Thomas), was b. at Charlestown, 28 Nov. 1722, m. 27 
Sept. I 750, Susanna, dau. of Robert and Susanna (Johnson) Screech. 



84 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

THOMAS AUSTIN. 

Eldest brother of Lieut. John, whom he succ. in 1792; b. 
Charlestown, Mass., 7 Sept. 1762; d. i8i6; H. U. 1791. He 
was a merchant, and resided in Cambridge, Mass. 

He m. 22 March, 1807, Martha, dau. Gideon Frost of Cambridge. 
They had Susan Screech, b. 25 July, 1808, d. Cambridge, 12 July, 
1885. 

^^ams iSailrs. 

He was b. Scituate, Mass., 27 Jan. 1749; d. Charlestown, 26 
July, 1824. His parents removed to West Bridgewater soon 
after he was born. He entered the reg. of Col. John Bailey 
(2d) in 1775 as quartermaster; was com. paym. with the 
rank of lieut. i Jan. 1777, and capt. i Nov. 1778, serving 
until the close of the war. He then became a farmer in his 
native town, and held various positions of trust; was ASSIST. 
Sec. of the Mass. Soc. Cin. in 1808, and Assist. Treas. in 
1809-24; and in 18 10 was app. Supt. of the U. S. Marine 
Hospital, Charlestown,* Mass. 

His descent from Thomas} who was of Boston in 1643, ^id 
with his wife Ruth was of Weymouth in 1661, was through his 
eldest son yi>//«,^ who removed to Scituate ab. 1670; was admitted 
freeman, 1684; m. Sarah, dau. of Gowin and Elizabeth (Ward) 
White of Plymouth, 25 Jan. 1672, and d. 1718. His second son 
Joseph,^ b. Oct. 1679, ™- Miss Adams, a granddau. of the pil- 
grim John Adams, and had eight children, the youngest of whom was 
Adams* (father of Capt. Adams), b. 1722, who m. in 1746 Sarah, 
dau. of Jonathan, Jr., and Sarah (Field) Howard. 

Capt. Bailey m. 17 Jime, 1779, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel and Mary 
(Otis) Little, b. 16 Nov. 1749, d. 21 March, 1821. Her ancestor 
Thomas Little came to Plymouth from Cumberland, Eng., it is said, 
in 1630, and 19 April, 1633, m. Ann, dau. of the pilgrim Richard 
Warren. 

* The hospital was in Charlestown at that time, and it was the custom to 
have anon-medical man for superintendent. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 85 

ADAMS BAILEY. 

He was the only child of Capt. Adams Bailey, whom he 
succ. in 1825 ; b. Scituate, 28 April, 1789; d. Boston, 20 Nov. 
1858. He received a public school education in Boston, and 
was subsequently an assistant to his father in the Marine 
Hospital at Charlestown. In 181 5 he was appointed to an 
office in the Boston Custom House, being first a clerk and 
afterward deputy collector, and remaining until Oct. 1857, 
with the exception of the years 1841—43. As an officer, 
he was remarkably prompt and accurate, and was universally 
popular. He was Assist. Secretary of the Society in 
1834-51, and Secretary from 1851 until his death. From 
the resolutions of the Society which this event called forth, 
the following extract is taken : — 

" He inherited from his father the genuine spirit of this institution ; 
and the office of secretary, to which he was last elected, he held 
most acceptably until his death. He was the honored successor of 
Edwards and Townsend, and Callander and Jackson, and like them 
he loved to give assiduous attention to its benevolent and charitable 
ministrations." 

He m. Ellinor, dau. of Col. Johnand Susannah (Herbert) Hathome 
of Salem, 25 Dec. 1815. She d. 9 Sept. 1852. Her father, a descend- 
ant of Justice Hathome, of Salem witchcraft memory, was for many 
years a merchant in Salem. She possessed a gifted and cultivated 
mind, and a cheerful and amiable disposition, which was tested by 
many years of suffering as an invalid. Two sons and three daughters 
survived their parents. 

ADAMS BAILEY. 

Grandson of Capt. Adams, and eldest son of the preced- 
ing, whom he succ. in i860, was b. Boston, 21 May, 1818; d. 
Scarsdale, N. Y., 21 Feb. 1878. His boyhood and youth 
were passed in Boston, where he received his education and 
business training. In his early manhood he went to India, first 



86 BIOURAI'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

as supercargo ; afterwards he went into business in Calcutta, 
in the firm of Foster, Rogers, & Co., and continued there 
twelve years. In 1861 he removed to New York, where he 
engaged in business, having his home in Scarsdale, Westches- 
ter Co. He inherited the uprightness and strength of charac- 
ter of his Puritan ancestry, combined with intelligence, keen 
wit, and strong affections. 

He m. 21 May, 1856, Caroline Walter, dau. of William Bailey 
Lang. They had — 

Adams, b. April 29,- 1857, d. July, 1870. 
Walter Lang, b. May 15, 1858. 
Herbert Otis, b. Aug. 2, 1859. 
Susanna Hinckley, b. June 29, 1864. 
Frederic William, b. Feb. 14, 1875. 

WALTER LANG BAILEY, 

Great-grandson of Capt. Adams and second son of the 
preceding, whom he succ. in 1879, was b. Calcutta, India, 
May 15, 1858. He is at this date (1890) engaged in busi- 
ness in Calcutta. 

2Lutt)cr MaiUs- 

He was b. Hanover, Mass., 14 Sept. 1752 ; d. there 12 Ma}-, 
1820. His father. Col. John Bailey of Hanover, was lieut.- 
col. of Thomas's reg., which marched to Roxbury in April, 
1775 ; succ. Thomas as col. i July, 1775, and commanded the 
2d Mass. reg. until 31 Dec. 1780. 

Luther was adjutant of his father's reg. in 1775; lieut. 
and quartermaster in 1776; com. capt. 7 July, 1777, and 
served through the war. He was an able officer. This reg. 
was one of those that fortified Dorchester Heights on the 
night of March 4, 1776; took part in the operations in and 
near New York in the following summer and autumn ; in the 
battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth ; and also in 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 87 

Capt. Bailey was accomplished in manners, and easy and 
pleasant in conversation and address, and was often called 
upon to serve as chairman of public meetings in his native 
town. 

The descent of Luther Bailey from Thomas'^ of Boston in 1643, 
and Ruth his wife, was through John ^ and Sarah (White) Bailey ; 
John^ b. 5 Nov. 1673, d. Hanover, June, 1752, who m. 19 Feb. 
1700, Abigail, dau. of Dea. Samuel Clapp ; John* b. 23 May, 1703, 
d. 28 Sept. 1778, who m. II April, 1723, Elizabeth Cowen ; Col. 
John^ (his father), b. 30 Oct. 1730, d. 27 Oct. 1810, who m. 18 
Oct. 1750, Ruth Randall. She d. 3 June, 1820, a;. 90. 

Luther m. 21 Oct. 17S4, the accomplished Miss Silvester Little, 
who d. 27 June, 1788, ae. 35, leaving two daughters who d. in 
childhood. 

CALVIN BAILEY. 

Brother of Capt. Luther, whom he succ. in 1824; was b. 
Hanover, 1760 ; d. Bath, Me., 1835. He was a clockmaker by 
trade, an ingenious workman, and an upright and honest 
man. 

By his wife Sarah, dau. of Col. John Jacobs of Scituate, who d. 
Hanover, 24 Nov. 1846, a;. 82, he had — 

LuciNDA, II July, 1794, ni. Stephen Curtis of Scituate, 1816, and 

d. 1818. 
Bernard Calvin. 

Edwin, 7 May, 1798, d. s. p. Aug. 1828. 
Luther and Martin, d. in infancy. 

Capt. Henry, 2 Aug. 1801, m. Sarah Gardner, 16 Jan. 1832. 
Eliza, 5 July, 1803. 
Sarah, 20 Aug. 1S05, m. Lemuel Dwelley, Jr., of Hanover. 

BERNARD CALVIN BAILEY. 

Son of Calvin, whom he succ. in 1861 ; b. Hanover, Mass. 
17 May, 1796; d. Bath, Me., June 13, 1876. He removed, in 
18 1 5, to Bath, Mc, became a successful merchant and ship- 



88 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

owner; Mayor of Bath, 1853-54; and President of the Marine 
National Bank of Bath. 

He m. 20 May, 1820, Jane Doten Donnell of Hanover, who d. 
Bath, 14 Dec. 187 1, and had — 

Sarah Jane, Feb. 1821, m. George Davis in 1841. 
Col. Samuel Donnell, 22 July, 1825. 
LuciNDA, May, 1829. 

SAMUEL DONNELL BAILEY. 

Grand-nephew of Capt. Luther, and only son of the pre- 
ceding, whom he succ. in 1877, was b. Bath, Me., 22 July, 
1825. He was educated at Bath and Gorham ; has been 
engaged in ship-building and in the ship-chandlery business, 
and is a large ship-owner; was Mayor of Bath in 1870; is 
now (1890) President of the Marine National Bank in that 
city, having succeeded his father in 1876. He m. Nov. 1873, 
Susan Jane, dau. of Hon. James Patterson White, of Belfast, 
Me., and formerly Mayor of that city. No children. 

Sosctflj 2}alcom. 

He was b. Templeton, Mass., 1752 ; d. at Worcester, 4 Nov. 
1827. He belonged to a company of minute-men which re- 
sponded to the call on the 19th April, 1775 ; was in Moore's 
Co. of Nixon's reg. in May -Dec. 1775 ; in Andrew Haskell's 
Co. of Marshall's reg., and engaged in fortifying Boston Har- 
bor in 1776; sergeant in Abel Holden's Co. of Nixon's (6th) 
reg., and com. ensign, 12 Nov. 1777; served in the campaign 
against Burgoyne ; com. lieut. in Capt. P. Clayes's Co. 20 
April, 1781 ; in C. Smith's (6th) reg. 23 April, 1782; dis- 
charged, 3 Nov. 1783. In his application for a government 
pension, he stated that he was worth ^400 when he entered 
the service, in the course of which that sum had been en- 
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CINCINNATI OB' MASSACHUSETTS. 89 

l)ctiutl)an ]$al1rtDtn. 

He was b. Woburn, Mass., 13 Jan. 1732; d. Brookfield, 
Mass., II June, 1788. He was a captain in the expedition 
to Crown Point in 1755; and to Ticonderoga and Ft. Du 
Quesne in 1758; prominent in the Provincial Congress of 
Massachusetts in 1774-75; active in planning the defensive 
works around Boston in 1775 ; com. assistant engineer, rank 
of capt., 16 March; lieut. col. (continental establishment) 26 
April; and col. of engineers, 3 Sept. 1776, to 26 April, 1782. 
He served under Gen. Lincoln in suppressing Shays's rebel- 
lion. He gave ii^ioo to Leicester Academy. 

His descent from Henry Bahhinn} of Charlestown in 1640, after- 
ward of Woburn, who m. i Nov. 1649, Phebe, dau. of Ezekiel 
Richardson, d. 14 Feb. 1698, was through Henry^ b. 15 Nov. 1664, 
d. 7 July, 1739, who m. 4 May, 1692, Abigail Fisk ; Isaac^ (his 
father)^ b. 20 Feb. 1700, who m. 24 March, 1726, Mary Flagg. 

LUKE BALDWIN. 

Only son of Col. Jeduthan, whom he succ. in 1809; d. in 
1832. His son John A., of Dunstable, N. H., applied for 
membership in 1834. 

ISIirnrfcr iSallanttnr. 

He was b. (probably in Westfield, Mass.) 12 July, 1756; 
com. surgeon's mate in Nixon's (6th) reg. 20 May, 1780; dis- 
charged, June, 1783 ; afterwards practised as a physician in 
Schodack, N. Y., until 1822, when he removed to Marion, Ohio, 
where his two sons had settled. He had in all eight children. 

aaiiUiam jS^utrson iSallavtJ. 

He was of Amesbury, and d. Dec. 1814, leaving a widow, 
Keziah, who d. at Hopkinton, N. H., 3 June, 1832. He 
served as capt in James Fryc's (Essex) reg. May-Dec. 



90 BIOGRAI'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

1775, and in the battle of Bunker Hill; was in Asa Whit- 
comb's (6th) reg. 1776; in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1777-79, 
and in campaign against Burgoyne ; com. major in July, 
1779, and in Bigelow's (15th) reg. until discharged, i Jan. 
1 78 1. He possessed a good estate at the commencement 
of the war, but at its close found himself nearly reduced to 
poverty. He left several sons and one daughter. 

JOHN OSGOOD BALLARD. 
Eldest son of William H.,whom he succ. in 1841 ; d. Hop- 
kinton, N. H., April, 1854, se. 86. He taught school for 
many years, married in 1800, and engaged in business, but 
failed in 18 19, and afterward kept a boarding-school. 

REV. EDWARD BALLARD, D.D. 

Eldest son and only child of John O., whom he succ. in 
1855; b. Hopkinton, N. H., 11 Nov. 1804; d. rector of St. 
Paul's (Protestant Episcopal) Church, Brunswick, Me., 14 
Nov. 1870. He was in early life a school-teacher. Received 
the degree of D.D. from Trinity College in 1865. 

Samts 35antroft. 

His ancestors settled ab. 1640 in the northwest part of 
Lynn, called Lynn End, now Lynnfield, where he was b. ab. 
1756, and d. Boston, 2 April, 1803. Com. ensign in Bridge's 
reg. May, 1775, and present at Bunker Hill and siege of 
Boston; com. lieut. in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. 12 May, 1780, 
and served through the war. He then settled in business 
as a grocer in Boston, and was for some years prior to his 
death an Inspector of the Customs in that city. 

James his father, b. ab. 1732, d. Aug. 1814, was a housewright 
and farmer, and is said to have behaved with great bravery in the 
Lexington battle. Lieut. Bancroft m. ab. 1783 Sally Parsons of 
Leicester, who d. 1795, oe. 41, and had — 



CliNCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. 9 1 

James. 

Henry. 

Charles, 19 April, 1788, d. Montreal, Canada, 1834, m. Mary 

Ann Jones of Barre, Mass., and had Henry, Charles, and James. 

Henry d. leaving children ; Charles was a Prot. Ep. clergyman 

at Montreal, with a family ; James, a bank officer at Hamilton, 

Canada, no children. 
Sally P., 16 Jan. 1790, lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Harriet, 24 Sept. 1793, m. Benj. C. Cutler, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

JAMES BANCROFT. 

Son of Lieut. James, whom he siicc. in 1809, was b. Lynn- 
field, 30 Dec. 1784. He was a merchant in Phila., where he 
d. 13 March, 1855. 

He m. Rebecca Smith of Phila., and left a dau., who m. Elias 
Baker of New Brunswick, N.J. She d. leaving two young sons, 
fames B. and Frederick Baker. 

HENRY BANCROFT. 

He was b. Lynnfield, 9 Aug. 1786, succ. his bro. James in 
1856, and d. 15 Aug. 1872. He m. Oct. 16, 1821, Eliza 
Motley, and had two sons, who d. unm. ; and a dau., who 
m. in 1 841 Cyrus Wakefield, of Wakefield, Mass., and who 
had no children. 

Joel iSatloUi. 

He was b. Redding, Ct., 24 March, 1754; d. Zarnowice, 
Poland, 22 Dec. 1812. He was the son of Samuel and Esther 
(Hull) Barlow, and a descendant of the John Barlow who 
first appears as a resident of Fairfield, Ct., in 1668. Joel 
grad. at Yale Coll. in 1778, and spent the two following years 
in New Haven in post-graduate studies, waiting for a tutor- 
ship in the College. In 1780, near the end of the summer, he 
was commissioned Chaplain in Poor's (3d) Brigade, Mass. 



92 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

line, then engaged in guarding the passes of the Hudson. 
He served in that capacity until Oct. 1783, when the brigade 
was disbanded. He then settled in Hartford, Ct, studied law, 
wrote a great deal of poetry, revised Dr. Watts's version of the 
Psalms, and started a weekly paper, called " The American 
Mercury." In 1786 he was admitted to the bar, and in the 
following year he published " The Vision of Columbus," a 
poem which had a popular success. In 1788 he went to 
France as the agent of the Scioto Land Co. The subsequent 
failure of the Company to fulfil its obligations cast unmerited 
odium on their agent. It does not appear that he was cul- 
pable, but only that he was wanting in business experience. 
After the failure of his special mission he became interested 
in French politics, joined the Girondists, and contributed 
largely to the literature of the day. The greater part of the 
years 1790-92 he spent in London, where he wrote " The Con- 
spiracy of Kings," and a volume of political essays, entitled 
" Advice to the Privileged Orders." The last-named work 
was widely read at the time, and discussed with much heat. 
Burke assailed it; Fox eulogized it; the British Government 
suppressed it, and proscribed its author. Barlow fled to 
France, where he was received with much favor. The Na- 
tional Convention conferred upon him the title of Citizen of 
France. Save Washington and Hamilton, he was the only 
American on whom the privileges of French citizenship had 
been conferred. In Dec. 1792, he accepted an invitation to 
accompany the Commissioners of the National Convention to 
Savoy for the purpose of organizing it as a French Depart- 
ment. While there he was nominated to represent the de- 
partment in the National Convention, but failed to be elected. 
In the little inn at Chambery, at this time, he wrote the poem 
" Hasty Pudding," which gives him a higher place in litera- 
ture than any other of his works. In 1796 he accepted an 
appointment from the United States Government to act as 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 93 

assent at Algiers, with a general oversight of the relations 
with the Barbary States. He performed his mission to the 
satisfaction of the government, and having released the 
prisoners, and concluded treaties with Algiers, Tunis, and 
Tripoli, he returned to Paris in Sept. 1797. His chief oc- 
cupations for the next seven years were of a literary char- 
acter; but he still continued to take an interest in the 
political movements in Europe and America. In 1798 he 
wrote a letter to Washington, with a view to harmonizing 
the differences between France and the United States ; but 
his purpose was misunderstood or wilfully misrepresented 
by the Federalists, who assailed him with the utmost viru- 
lence. In 1805, after an absence of eighteen years, he 
returned home, having made a moderate fortune while in 
France, and bought an estate on Rock Creek, between 
Georgetown and the Capitol, which he named Kalorama, 
In 1807 he published the " Columbiad," a long epic poem. 
" It abounds in beautiful passages, but is overburdened with 
political and philosophical disquisitions, and disfigured by 
singularities of expression." 

In 18 1 1 the relations between the United States and France 
were of the gravest character, and Pres. Madison selected Mr. 
Barlow as in all respects the fittest man to represent this 
country in an attempt to settle the differences. In Auo_ of 
that year he sailed in the frigate " Constitution ;" but on his ar- 
rival at Paris, Napoleon was too much occupied with his pro- 
jected invasion of Russia, to give much thought to a treaty 
with this country. It was not until the latter part of the fol- 
lowing year that a definite appointment was made for the 
American Minister to meet Napoleon at Wilna in Poland. 
After a rough journey he reached the place appointed only 
to find the French army in retreat from Russia. He started 
on his return to Paris, but the condition of the country was 
such that it was impossible to procure suitable food or lodg- 



94 i;i(x;raphical notices ok the 

ing. He became seriously ill, and at the little village of 
Zarnowice, on the farther side of Cracow, he was obliged to 
stop, and five days later he died. R. W. Griswold, in his 
" Poets and Poetry of America," says of him : " As an author 
he belonged to the first class of his time in America; and for 
his ardent patriotism, his public services, and the purity of 
his life, he deserves a distinguished rank among the men of 
our golden age." \ 

He m. 26 Jan. 1781, Ruth Baldwin of New Haven. She d. at 
Kalorama, 29 May, 1818, s. p. 

iSavatiyinii ISaauttt. 

He was an active patriot, and a member of the Committee 
of Correspondence. Com. lieut.-col. of Bradford's (i4thy reg. 
19 Nov. 1776; deranged, I Jan. 1 78 1, and d. Falmouth, Mass., 
13 June, 1813, as. 81. 

He was a descendant of Col. IVilliam,^ of Sandwich, through 
Nathan,^ who removed to Chilmark ; and William^ b. 1702, who 
m. Anne Mayhew. He m. 4 June, 1761, Mercy Bourne, and had : 
Anne, 1762; Mary, 1764; and Love, 1775. 

2Louts 3Jaur» He i^clIcinUr. 

He was b. in St. Domingo, 16 Sept. 1754; d. Middle- 
town, Ct., 20 Sept. 1807. His father, John Baury, was a 
captain of cavalry, and his mother, Marie Jane Guillotin de 
la Vigerie, was a relative of the celebrated Dr. Guillotin of 
Paris. Louis was educated at the military school of Brienne, 
France, and began his military service in 1768, as a volunteer 
in the reg. of Saintonge ; he was made sub-lieut. of a legion 
in 1769. Having passed, with leave, to St. Domingo in 1771, 
he was in 1773 made lieut. in the battalion of militia at Fort 
Dauphin. In 1776 he was appointed aide-de-camp to Count 
D'Argout, with the rank of capt. of infantry. In 1779 he 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 95 

was made capt.-comdt. in the corps of Chasseurs of St. Do- 
mingo, and in this rank he served during the campaign of 
Savannah. He commanded five hundred men of his corps 
at Martinico, under the Marquis de BouilH, during a part of 
the years 1779-80. He was in the ship "Hannibal," com- 
manded by the Count de la Motte Piquet, in the engage- 
ments with Admiral Parker, which took place in 1779 and 
1780. During the years 1781-83 he served in the cam- 
paigns in America and the Windward Islands, with the rank 
of capt. in the " train of grenadiers and troops of disem- 
barkation."* After the war, Capt. Baury became a citizen 
of Boston, and paid the local taxes in 1784-85. He was 
married there 7 June, 1784, to Mary Clark, b. Middletown, 
Ct., July 19, 1767, dau. of Elisha and Sarah Clark, and 
granddau. of Hugh Hall, a well-known Boston merchant. 
In the early part of 1787 he acted as aide-de-camp to Gen. 
Lincoln in putting down Shays's rebellion. In acknowledging 
his services Gen. Lincoln said : " The zeal and fortitude, the 
spirit and bravery, which marked every part of your conduct 
merit my esteem and entitle you to my thanks." 

Capt. Baury had a plantation in St. Domingo, and appears 
to have spent a part of his time there until 1802. For some 
years before his death, in 1 807, he lived in Middletown, Ct. 
In 1788 Gen. Vincent certifies that " M. Baury de Bellerive, 
Planter of this Colony, has not resumed his command in the 
troops of his most Christian Majesty, since the year 1780, 
when the corps of volunteer Chasseurs, in which he served 
as capt.-com'dt. of a company, was formed." Rev. Alfred 
L. Baury stated, in 1850, in support of the claim of his 
mother to a pension from Congress, that his father received 
pay for his military services in the American army frorn 1780 

* This statement of service is taken from a paper (on file in tlie Pension 
Office at Washington) signed by Capt. Baury de Rellerive, and dated at Cape 
Franjois, i8 April, 17SS. The French General Commandant (Vincent) certifies 
to the truth u£ the statement- 



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until the end of the war, and in support of the statement re- 
ferred to his contribution in Continental securities of one 
month's pay to the principal fund of the Mass. Soc. of 
the Cincinnati. In this connection it may be of interest to 
state the circumstances under which Capt. Baury became a 
member of the order. He signed the original autograph list 
as " Baury De Bellerive," and did not designate his rank. At 
a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Society in 1787, 
a sub-committee reported favorably on his claims for mem- 
bership, stating that M. Baury had made three campaigns in 
the Southern States of America, as an officer in the French 
armies commanded by Count d'Estaing, Count de Grasse, 
and the Marquis de Vaudreuil ; that since rendering those 
services he had cheerfully attended Gen. Lincoln as aide-de- 
camp during the critical state of the rebellion in IMassachu- 
setts ; that he had in every sense become a citizen, and 
formed connections here which would probably continue 
through life ; that he possessed an unspotted reputation as 
a gentleman and a man of the purest honor; and that he 
was warmly attached to the interests of this country and 
desirous of associating with the Cincinnati, to whom he felt 
himself strongly affected. The report was approved, and it 
was recommended that a particular resolution be passed by 
the Institution, stating the services which were held to entitle 
M. Baury to membership, and providing that the case should 
not be considered as a precedent in any future proceedings 
of the Society. At the Annual Meeting in 1789, Capt. Baury 
was admitted in accordance with the Committee's recom- 
mendation. Capt. Baur}''s eldest son, Francis, was appointed 
a midshipman in the navy, and served on the " Trumbull." 
When war was impending between France and the United 
States, Capt. Baury could not endure the thought that his 
son might be called upon to fight against the land of his 
birth, and he withdrew him from the service. In 1801, while 





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France was engaged in the reconquest of St. Domingo, Capt. 
Baury went there with his son, and the latter was appointed 
on Rochambeau's staff, and was killed in action in March, 
1802. 

FREDERIC BAURY. 

Son of Capt. Louis, whom he succ. in 1813; b. 1792, d. 
1 8 14. He was appointed a midshipman in 1809, and first 
joined the frigate " Essex." Later he was transferred to 
the " Constitution," and was serving in her when she cap- 
tured the " Guerriere " and the " Java." After these actions 
he was promoted to a lieutenancy and transferred to the 
" Wasp." For gallant services in the capture of the " Rein- 
deer," June 28, 1 8 14, Congress ordered that a sword be 
presented to him. But before the order could be carried 
out he was drowned by the sinking of the " Wasp " after the 
capture of the "Avon," in Sept. 1814. The sword was sub- 
sequently presented to his brother, Rev. A. L. Baury. 

ALFRED LOUIS BAURY, D.D. 

He was the fourth son of Capt. Baury (de Bellerive) ; adm. 
1823 as succ. to his bro. Frederic ; b. Middletown, Ct., 14 
Sept. 1794; d. Boston, 26 Dec. 1865. Hfe received his early 
education at Bacon Academy, Colche.ster, Ct. In 1809 he 
became a clerk in the service of Mr. Josiah Williams, of Mid- 
dletown ; and in 18 14 began business there for himself, which 
two years later, he transferred to Tarborough, N. C, where 
he passed three winters. In 18 18 he returned to New Eng- 
land, and began the study of theology with Dr. Titus Strong 
of Greenfield, Mass. He removed soon after to Guilford, Vt., 
where he became a lay reader, and was instrumental in estab- 
lishing there the parish of Christ Church. Sept. 28, 1820, he 
was admitted to deacon's orders by Bishop Griswold, but 
continued to officiate at Christ Church till May, 1822. Here 
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his ministrations were both attractive and impressive ; and 
his memory is still cherished. Removing to Newton, Mass., 
he was in July, 1822, chosen rector of St. Mary's, continuing 
in its charge until 21 April, 1851, having been ordained 
priest, 28 Nov. 1822. 

Mr. Baury, on retiring from this post, did not lay aside the 
ministerial office. As early as 1832 he began to exercise a 
supervision of the ancient parish of St. Paul's, in Hopkinton; 
and after his retirement from the full duties of the pastoral 
office, he continued to officiate there, when the parish was not 
otherwise supplied, till the day of his death. He also under- 
took the care of the glebe belonging to this parish, acting as 
attorney for the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
in Foreign Parts," which has held this property in trust since 
1742. In 1855-58 he was rector of St. Mark's Church, Bos- 
ton, dividing his time between this and St. Paul's Church, 
Hopkinton. From 1833 to 1843 he was secretary of the con- 
vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mass. As 
treasurer of the " Society for the Relief of Widows and Or- 
phans of Deceased Clergymen of the Diocese of Mass.," its 
funds were, through his exertions, largely increased. 

He received the degree of A.M. from Yale College in 1848, 
and that of D.D. from the same college in 1865. He was 
chosen Vice-President of the Cincinnati, 4 July, 1853, and 
President in 1865. In 1847 he was made a corresponding 
member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. 

Dr. Baury published, in 1841, a sermon on the occasion of 
the funeral of " Zibeon Hooker, an Officer of the Revolution- 
ary Army; " and a sermon entitled an " Historical Sketch of 
St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls, being the 25th anni- 
versary of the incumbent's first officiating in that church," 
in 1847. 

As a preacher, he was clear and impressive, modelling his 
style upon that of the old English divines. In his personal 




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appearance he was tall, erect ; in figure and movement, grace- 
ful and dignified. His fine, classical features, his silvered 
hair, his urbane, courteous, yet cordial manners, rendered him 
an agreeable companion ; and he will long be remembered in 
Boston as one of the best specimens of a gentleman of the 
old school. 

He m. I July, 1839, Mary Catharine, daughter of Daniel Hen- 
shaw, and niece of David Henshaw (Sec. U. S. Navy), of Middle- 
bury, Vt. 

FREDERIC FRANCIS BAURY. 

Only son of Alfred Louis, whom he succ. in 1867; was b. 
20 Feb. 1843 ; d. City of New York, 18 Feb. 1888. He was 
appointed Acting Master's Mate in the U. S. Volunteer Navy 
(having previously served in the Mercantile Marine), 14 Aug. 
1 861, and attached to the frigate " Congress ; " promoted to be 
Acting Master in May, 1862, for " gallantry and meritorious 
conduct " in the engagement between the " Congress " and 
the rebel ram " Merrimac." Mr. Baury fired the first shot 
against the " Merrimac " in this famous contest which marked 
the beginning of a new era in the history of naval warfare. 
He subsequently took part in the various attacks on Charles- 
ton, S. C, between 1862 and 1864; beheaded a boat expedi- 
tion in which he cut out and captured, in the Savannah River, 
the English steam vessel " Alliance," with her cargo and a 
crew of 29 men. In Sept. 1864 he was promoted to be Act- 
ing Volunteer Lieutenant, for " meritorious conduct," and 
ordered to the frigate " Colorado." He was present at both 
attacks upon Fort Fisher, in Dec. 1864 and Jan. 1865, in the 
last of which he was severely wounded while gallantly leading 
a company of sailors to the assault on the works. He was 
mentioned in Commodore Henry Knox Thatcher's despatches 
to the Navy Dept. for "bravery and meritorious conduct in 
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discharged from the service, 8 Feb. 1869, and resided in New 
York until his death. 

ALFRED BAURY JACKSON. 

Great-grandson of Capt. Baury de Bellerive ; was b. Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 24 Nov. 1859. He succ. Frederic Francis Baury 
in 1888. His great-grandfather, David Jackson, was a sur- 
geon in the war of the Revolution, and died in 1800. His 
grandfather, Samuel Jackson, was Professor of the Institute 
of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. His father, 
bamuel Jackson, Medical Director U. S. Navy, m. Catherine 
Henshaw Baury, daughter of the above-named Rev. Alfred 
Louis Baury. 

Alfred Baury Jackson received his education in the public 
schools of Charlestown, the English High School in Boston, 
and the Military Academy at West Point. He graduated at 
West Point, 13 June, 1883, and was promoted at that date to 
be 2d lieut. 9th Cav'y. He served with his reg. at Fort Riley, 
Kan., and in the Indian Ter. from i Oct. 1883, to il June, 
1885 ; afterwards at Fort McKinney, Wyo., and Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kan. Since 28 Aug. 1887, he has been on duty at 
the U. S. Mil. Acad., West Point, as Instructor of Mathe- 
matics. He was promoted, i Feb. 1889, to be ist lieut. 
9th Cav'y. 

He was b. at Uxbridge, Mass., 17 Sept. 1756; d. Dighton, 
26 April, 1843. The family removed to Taunton when he 
was quite young. He grad. Harvard Coll. 1777, and imme- 
diately entered the army as lieutenant in H. Jackson's reg., in 
which he served until Nov. 1777. He was then appointed 
aide-de-camp to Gen. Lincoln, with the rank of major, and 
served through the southern campaigns. He became inti- 



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mate with that gallant officer and accomplished gentleman, 
John Laurens, and joined him in the audacious and success- 
ful enterprise of capturing a British armed schooner without 
striking a blow. When Gen. Lincoln capitulated at Charles- 
town, Major Baylies became a prisoner of war; but as soon 
as his exchange was effected, he rejoined the army and served 
in Lincoln's division at the siege of Yorktown. After the 
surrender of Cornwallis, and the appointment of Lincoln as 
Secretary of War, Baylies, who had been promoted to a 
lieutenant-colonelcy, served as one of Washington's aides, 
and spent some time at Mt. Vernon. In 1784 he returned to 
Mass., and married a daughter of Gen. Lincoln. When the 
government was organized under the new Constitution, he 
was appointed, 4 Aug. 1789, Collector of Customs for the 
port of Dighton. 

In 1810 he was appointed, by Gov. Gore, Judge of Probate 
for the county of Bristol. This employment was entirely 
foreign to his previous pursuits; but he soon acquainted 
himself with its multifarious details, and acquired an accurate 
and critical knowledge of the whole code of probate laws, — 
expounded them with clearness, precision, and even technical 
accuracy. Just, upright, impartial, and humane, he fulfilled 
every function of his office with the most scrupulous fidelity. 

In 1814 he was elected by the General Court of Massa- 
chusetts a member of that celebrated body known by the 
name of the Hartford Convention. 

In 1834, at the age of 78, and in the full vigor of his 
mental faculties, he resigned the office of Judge of Probate, 
and retired from all public employments. 

When he left the army, his health was much impaired ; he 
held to life by a slender thread, which the slightest accident 
might have broken ; but by the habit of strict regularity 
and temperance, he reached a great age, with a constitution 
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The vigor of his mind never failed ; his perceptions were 
clear and acute ; his conversation marked with strong sense, 
abounding with anecdotes and interesting reminiscences of 
the Revolution, exhibited, almost to the last days of his life, 
the liveliness of youth, without any of the garrulity of age, 
— always tasteful, animated, and correct. 

His descent from Thomas Baylies^ of Colebrook Dale, Eng. 
(who came to Uxbridge, Mass., about 1737), and Esther Sargent, 
was through Nicholas- (b. May 19, 1719, O. S. ; d. 26 July, 1807), 
who m. Elizabeth Parks of Newton in 1738. Hodijah^ was the 
youngest of six sons of Nicholas. His children were — 

Edmund. AVillum. Amelia. Benja.min Lincoln. 



EDMUND BAYLIES. 

Eldest son of Hodijah, whom he succ. in 1857 ; b. Dighton, 
22 Sept. 1787; d. Taunton, 16 May, 1878. He m. 1819, 
Eliza Ann, dau. of Phillips Payson, of Charlestown, Mass. 
Children — 

Elizabeth, who m. Wickham Hoffman of N. Y. 

Ruth, who m. Maturin Livingston of N. Y. 

Edmund Lincoln, 18 May, 1829, H. U. 1850 ; d. Geneva, Switzer- 
land, 28 Nov. 1869 ; m. Nathalie E., dau. of Robert Ray of 
New York City, and had : Edmund Lincoln, Walter Cabot, 
Cornelia Prime, and Ruth. 



EDMUND LINCOLN BAYLIES. 

The eldest son of Edmund Lincoln, and grandson of Ed- 
mund, whom he succ. in 1881 ; was b. New York City, 2 Dec. 
1857; educated Phillips Acad., Exeter, 1875; H. U. 1879; 
LL.B., Harv. Law Sch. 1882. He is a lawyer, and resides 
in the city of New York. He m. 18 Jan. 1887, Louisa, dau. 
of Alexander Van Rensselaer. 



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Josf)ua JScnson. 

First lieut. in Joseph Ward's (25th) reg. 1775-76; com. 
capt. in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. i Jan. 1777; served to the 
close of the war, and d. a few .years afterwards. 

HORACE BINNEY, LL.D. 

He was the son of Barnabas, a surgeon in the Revolution- 
ary army and an original member of the Penn. Society, 
b. 1 75 1, grad. Brown University, 1774, who settled in practice 
in Phila. after the war, and d. 21 June, 1787. Horace was 
b. Phila., 4 Jan. 1780; d. there 12 Aug. 1875; H. U. 1797. 
He was admitted to the Mass. Society in 1796, being 
then sixteen years of age and a junior at Harvard. After 
completing his studies he returned to Phila., and in 1802 
was admitted to the Penn. Society in succession to his 
father. He appears, however, to have kept up his connec- 
tion with the Mass. Society ; and he served as chairman of 
one of its committees as late as 1844. He was a member of 
the Penn. Legislature in 1806, and a member of Congress in 
1833-35. At a comparatively early age he attained a lead- 
ing position at the Phila. bar. In 1844 he argued before 
the Supreme Court of the United States (Daniel Webster 
being his opponent), the great case in which was involved 
the validity of the trust created by the Girard will for the 
establishment and maintenance of a college for orphans. 
The argument excited the admiration of the legal profes- 
sion, not only in this country but in Great Britain. He was 
a most accomplished lawyer; had a fine, commanding per- 
son, a handsome face, a dignified and graceful manner, and 
a melodious voice perfectly under his control and modulated 
with unusual skill. 

During the war of the Rebellion he published three pam- 
phlets in support of the power claimed by Pres. Lincoln 
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. 



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His son, Horace, Jr., b. 3I Jan. 1S09, d. 3 Feb. 1870, was 
a prominent lawyer in Phila., founder of the Union League, 
and its president at the time of his death. 

He was a housewright in Boston; was com. Heut. in 1776; 
2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, 10 Sept. 1778; reg. quarter- 
master in 1783; and d. 1792, leaving a widow, Dorcas, and 
six children. She was living in Boston in 1837, se. 81. His 
grandson, Joseph, applied in 1844 for a government pension. 

ROBERT BLAKE. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Edward, whom he succ. in 1809; 
was a painter by trade, and resided in Boston, where he d. 
ab. 1854. 

He was of Sutton, Mass. ; com. captain in Wesson's (9th) 
reg. I March, 1777; and d. a pensioner in N. Y. City, 9 
Aug. 1 82 1. 

(talcb aJloHstt. 

A lieut. in the N. Hampshire line ; joined the Mass. So- 
ciety in 1788. After the war he was a merchant of Boston, 
and was drowned in the harbor while on a gunning excur- 
sion, 12 Aug. 1789. 

He was b. Boston, 10 March, 1757; d. Machias, Me., Sept. 
1813. Com. ensign in Paterson's reg. 1776; lieut. and adju- 
tant, 28 Feb. 1779, and served to the end of the war in 
Vose's (ist) reg. He was present at Saratoga, Monmouth, 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I05 

entered New York City on its evacuation by the British in 
Nov. 1783. He was a brave and efficient officer, and on 
leaving the army, in 1784, received the brevet of captain. 
He settled in Machias, Me., in 1788; was its postmaster 
and town clerk at the time of his death, and was also clerk 
of the courts of Washington County. He was a true patriot 
and an honest man. 

His descent from John Bowks'^ of Roxbury in 1639, ^"d Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Isaac Heath, was through Rev. John^ bap. 1 7 June, 
1653, H. U. 1671, a representative and speaker of the house in 
1690; d. 27 March, 1691, who m. Sarah, only child of E.ev. John 
Eliot; Maj. Johti,* h. 15 March, 1685, H. U. 1702, d. 28 March, 
1737, who m. 10 Sept. 1706, Lydia, dau. of Col. Saml. Checkley ; 
Joshua* (his father), b. 3 May, 1722, d. 31 Aug. 1 794, who m. 
Mary, dau. of Capt. Ralph Hartt, a noted shipbuilder of Boston. 

Ralph Hart Bowles m. in 1788 Hannah, dau. of Rev. Josiah 
Crocker, pastor of the first church in Taunton, a woman of great 
energy of character, and much esteemed for her many virtues. She 
d. Roxbury, 10 July, 1848, ae. 82. Her mother was the sister of Gen. 
David Cobb, and also of Sarah, wife of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, a 
signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her bro. Capt. Joseph 
Crocker was the first Assist. Sec. of the Society. The children of 
Ralph and Hannah were — 

Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus. 

Hannah Crocker, 20 April, 1791, d. in infancy. 

Stephen Jones, 7 July, 1793, merchant, d. Roxbury, 26 March, 
1846, m. Elizabeth Thorndike, dau. of Col. Joseph Wallace, Jr., 
of Harrington, Me., and had Hannah Crocker, who m. Rev. 
Philip Wolfe; Elizabeth Wallace, 3 March, 1829, m. J. Wingate 
Thornton ; Mary Hart, m. Chas. E. Pike ; Stephen Wallace, 2 1 
Dec. 1835 ; John Eliot, 21 Aug. 1842, d. 26 Feb. 1853 ; Lucy 
B., 8 Nov. 1845, m. Seymour Lyman. 

Leonard Crocker, Sept. 1796. 

Wm. Ralph Hart, Sept. 1799, d. 1851. 

Mary Jones, May 6, 1802, m. Fred'k A. Burrall, merchant of 
New York, d. 1845. 



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LUCIUS QUINTIUS CINCINNATUS BOWLES 

He was the eldest son of Ralph Hart Bowles, whom he 
succ. in 1814; was b. Machias, Me., 6 March, 1789; d. unm. 
Roxbury, July, 1843. After an apprenticeship to John West, 
bookseller in Boston, he removed to Montpelier, Vt., and 
while there commanded a company which marched to Platts- 
burg in 18 14, and served to the end of the war. He was in 
business as a publisher, for a time, in New York ; afterwards 
he returned to Machias to live, and was elected to the State 
Senate for one or two terms. 

LEONARD CROCKER BOWLES. 

Third son of Ralph Hart Bowles, succ. his bro. L. O. C. 
Bowles, in i860; ASSIST. Sec. from 1863 to 1873; b. Ma- 
chias, Me., 12 Sept. 1796; d. 2 March, 1876; publisher in 
Boston. He m. 7 Oct. 1824, Catharine Gushing, eldest 
dau. of Martin Lincoln of Hingham, granddaughter of 
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln of the army of the Revolution. 
They had — 

M.iRV Eliz.\beth, who m. William Crosby, bookseller of Boston. 
Catharine Leonard, unm. 

Martin LnsicoLN, merchant, Boston ; m. Fanny M.. dau. of George 
Darracott, Boston. 

STEPHEN WALLACE BOWLES, I\I.D. 

The eldest son of Stephen Jones Bowles, and grandson of 
Ralph Hart; was b. Machias, Me., 21 Dec. 1835 ! adm. 1880. 
He was educated at Williams Coll. and the Coll. of Phj'sicians 
and Surgeons, N. Y. City. He served as Acting Asst. Surgeon, 
U. S. A., during the war of the Rebellion (1861-65), and 
afterwards settled in Springfield, Mass., as a practising 
physician. He has also served as one of the Commissioners 
of Prisons in Mass. 



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He m. Oct. 12, 1859, Elizabeth, dau. Dr. Chauncy Belden. They 
had — 

Lucv, b. Jan. i, 1862. 
Elizabeth, June 20, 1864. 
Stephen Wallace, April 4, 1866. 
John Elliot, April 9, 1868. 
Harry Thornton, March 7, 1877. 



.Samuel ISotuman. 

He was b. Lexington, Mass., 2 Dec. 1753; d. Wilkes- 
barre, Pa., 28 June, 1818. He enlisted at the beginning of 
the Revolution ; was an ensign in Greaton's (3d) reg. ; com. 
lieut. in Vose's (ist) reg. 22 April, 1782; served at Lexing- 
ton, and in many battles of the war; and, as com. of the 
guard, walked arm in arm with Andre to the place of that 
officer's execution. He moved to Wilkesbarre ab. 1789. 
Capt. nth U.S. Infantry, 8 Jan. 1799-June, 1800. 

His descent from Nathaniel^ of Watertown, 1^36-37, who d. 21 
Jan. 1682, and his wife Anna, was through Francis^ who m. 26 Sept. 
1 66 1, Martha Shennan, and d. Cambridge Farms, 16 Dec. 1687, 

se. 57 ; Joseph} b. 18 May, 1674, d. 8 April, 1762, and Phebe ; 

Thaddeus'^ (his father), b. 2 Sept. 171 2, who m. 2 Dec. 1736, Sarah, 
dau. of Dea. Joseph Loring. 

He m. in Phila. 3 Nov. 1784, Eleanor Ledlie, whose parents were 
from Ireland, and had a family of children, some of whom have been 
quite distinguished. 

antrrfto JSratrfortt. 

Son of Hon. Gamaliel, and great-grandson of Gov. Wil- 
liam; was b. Duxbury, Mass., 2 June, 1745; d. there i Jan. 
1837; H. U. 1771 ; paym. in Bradford's (14th) reg. i Jan. 
1777-31 Dec. 1780; lieut. 26 Nov. 1779; in Brooks's (7th) 
reg. I Jan. 1781, until discharged, 16 April, 1782. He was 
afterwards a teacher.- By his wife, Mary Turner, of Pern- 



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broke, he had one son, Dr. James Harvey, who d. Duxbury, 
28 Feb. 1863, unm. 

ROBERT FORBES BRADFORD. 

He was the grandson of Seth Bradford, 'brother of Lieut. 
Andrew, and was b. Boston, 9 Dec. 1836; adm. 1880. He 
was educated at the pubHc schools in Boston, and at tlie 
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He graduated from the 
Naval School in 1856, and during the next three years 
was on duty in the European squadron and in the West 
Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. After passing his examina- 
tion, in 1859, he was ordered to the U. S. sloop-of-war 
" Portsmouth " as acting-master, and was on the coast of 
Africa until 1861. He was commissioned lieutenant in that 
year, and served as executive officer of the gunboat " Cho- 
cura." He was in the North Atlantic blockading squadron 
during 1861-62; took part in the attack on the batteries at 
Sewell's Point, and the reduction of Yorktown and Glouces- 
ter. On 16 July, 1862, he was commissioned as lieut. -com- 
mander, and served as executive officer (1863-64), first on 
the "Juniata," and later on the " De Soto," attached to the 
flying squadron, and afterwards to the East Gulf blockading 
squadron. During 1865-67 he was on duty at the Naval 
Academy as instructor in gunnery. In 1868 he was execu- 
tive officer of the " Minnesota," on special service, and in 
the following year he was ordered to the command of the 
gunboat "Aroostook" in the Asiatic fleet; afterwards to the 
command of the " Ashuelot," on the same station. In 1870 
he was detailed as assistant to the chief of the bureau of 
Yards and Docks; and in June of that year he was commis- 
sioned as commander. During the ensuing ten years he 
served as inspector of ordnance at Pittsburg, Pa., and at 
the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard, and as commander of 
the "Marion," in the European squadron. On 15 Oct. 



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1881, he was commissioned as captain. From Jan. 1887, 
until Oct. 1889, he was commander of the naval station at 
Portsmouth, N. H. He was subsequently detailed to the 
command of the new steel cruiser " Philadelphia." 

He m. 3 Dec. 1862, Caroline, dau. of Alfred L. Baury. Children — 

Robert Forbes, 9 Dec. 1864. 

Frederick W., 2 Jan. 1867. 

Pauline Baury, 2 Nov. 1868. 

Caroline Beckford, 21 Sept. 1870. 

Catherine Henshaw, 6 June, 1872. 

Edith Bellerive, 13 Nov. 1874. 

Sarah Edmunds, 27 April, 1880. 

Baurv de Bellerive, 2 March, 1882. 



dKamalttl ISralffortr, Col. 

He was b. Duxbury, Mass., 2 Sept. 1731 ; d. there 9 Jan. 
1807. He was one of six brothers, four of whom served in 
the war of the Revolution, — three of them as officers. Two 
of the three are on the membership rolls of this Society; the 
other died in the service. They were four generations re- 
moved from Gov. Wm. Bradford of the Plymouth Colony; 
the graves of their ancestors are discoverable in the old 
burial-grounds of Duxbury and Plymouth. Their father, 
the Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, was one of the King's Council- 
lors, but was in full sympathy with the cause of the colo- 
nists, and was prevented only by age from taking an active 
part in the movement for independence. Gamaliel, the sub- 
ject of this notice, served in the French and Indian war as 
capt. and major. In 1775, on the outbreak of hostilities 
with Great Britain, he was serving as one of the magistrates 
of the colony. On i Jan. 1777, he was com. col. of the 
14th reg. Mass. continental troops, and served till the army 
was disbanded on the banks of the Hudson, in 1783. He 



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lived afterwards in Duxbcry till his death, 9 Jan. 1807. He 
is mentioned in the accounts of the day as commanding the 
State troops on the visit of Washington to Boston in 1789. 
Mr. Gamaliel Bradford of this Society has a miniature of Col. 
Bradford, painted in camp by Thaddeus Kosciusko, the Polish 
patriot, then an engineer officer in the Continental army. 

Col. Gamaliel m. 10 March, 1757, Sarah Alden. Children — 
Perez, 14 Nov. 1758, m. Judith Cooper and had Samiui and 

Judith, who m. a Huntington. 
Sophia, 16 Nov. 1761, d. 2 Feb. 1855. 
Gamaliel, 4 Nov. 1763, m. Elizabeth Hickling. 
Alden, 19 Nov. 1765. 
Sarah, 24 Feb. 1768, m. W'm. Hinckley. 
Jerusha, 30 Jan. 1770, m. Ezra Weston. 
Daniel, 27 Dec. 1771, m. Sarah Drew. 
Gersho.m, 3 Feb. 1774, rn. Sarah B. Hickling, and d. 8 Aug. 1844. 



ALDEN BRADFORD, LL.D. 

Third son of Col. Gamaliel, whom he succeeded in 1812; 
was b. Duxbury, 19 Nov. 1765; d. Boston, 26 Oct. 1843. 
He graduated from Harvard College in 1786; tutor there, 
1791-93; pastor of a Congregational church at Wiscasset, 
Me., 1793-1801 ; Clerk Mass. Supreme Court; Secretary of 
State of Mass. 1812-24. He was a member of the Mass. 
Historical Society, and was president of the Pilgrim Society 
in the early part of this century. He presented the first sub- 
scription for the Pilgrim National Monument at Plymouth, 
lately completed and dedicated. Mr. Bradford wrote three 
histories of Massachusetts, illustrating different periods, which 
have a reputation for accuracy, and are still consulted as 
standard works. He was also the author of " New England 
Biography," and other works. He received the honorary 
degree of LL D. from Bowdoin College in 1803. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I I I 

He m. in 1795, Mary Stevenson. Their children were — 

Margaret Boies, 28 May, 1796. 

Wm. John Alden, 19 Nov. 1797, H. U. 1816, d. 1858. 

Lucy Ann, 14 Sept. 1800, m. Henry Dwight. 

Thomas Gamaliel. 

Duncan, 15 Aug. 1804, H. U. 1824. 

Isabella Thomas, 25 April, 1806. 

Sarah, 28 April, 1808. 

John Robinson, Sept. 1S13, d. 1828. 

THO.MAS GA.MALIEL BRADFORD. 

He was the second son of Alden, whom he succ. in 1859; 
b. Boston, 13 Dec. 1802; d. there 23 March, 1887; H. U. 
1822. Most of his life was passed in Boston. For some 
years he resided in Philadelphia, where his literary labors, 
especially on the " Encyclopaedia Americana," and " Mur- 
ray's Cyclofiaedia of Geography," were most conveniently 
prosecuted. Later on, he established a private school in 
Boston ; and later still, travelled and resided abroad for sev- 
eral years as a tutor to many young men. The latter part 
of his life was spent in retirement. He was a scholar in 
every sense of the word, a man of strong intellectual interests 
and sympathies. He was most highly valued for the simple, 
modest, and affectionate traits of character which attracted 
every one who knew him. 

LAURENCE BRADFORD. 

Great-grandson of Col. Gamaliel, through his youngest 
son, Gershom ; was b. in Hubbardston, Mass., 17 Sept. 1842; 
adm. 1889, as succ. to Thomas Gamaliel. He went to sea 
at an early age. In May, 1863, he was appointed by the 
Secretary of the Navy a mate in the U. S. Volunteer Navy, 
and served there until Aug. 1865, when he received an hon- 
orable discharge. He served off Wilmington with the block- 



I I 2 UIUGRAPIIICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ading squadron, and on the Virginia rivers ; participated in 
the capture of Richmond, being attached to the first vessel 
that reached the city at the time of its surrender. Later, 
he had an opportunity to enter the regular navy, but having 
engaged in another pursuit, the Cffer was not accepted. 
After the close of the war he was educated for a civil en- 
gineer, and has since practised this vocation. 

His descent from Gov. VVm. Bradford ■* of the Plymouth Colony 
was through Major William^ b. Plymouth, 17 June, 1624, d. 20 
Feb. 1 703-4, who m. Alice Richards ; Lieut. Samuel,^ b. Plymouth, 
1668, d. Duxbury, 11 April, 1 714, who m. Hannah Rogers, July, 
1689 ; Hon. Gamaliel,^ b. 18 May, 1704, d. 24 April, 1778, whom. 
Abigail Bartlett, 30 Aug. 1728; Col. Gamaliel^ b. 2 Sept. 1731, d. 
4 Jan. 1807, who m. Sarah Alden, March 10, 1757 ; Gershoin,^ b. 
Duxbury, 3 Feb. 1774, d. 8 Aug. 1844, who m. Sarah B. Hickling, 
Oct. 3, 1802 ; Claudius (his father), b. 20 Jan. 1801, d. 3 Feb. 
1863, who m. Maria W. Bradford, 12 April, 1830. 

Laurence m. 9 April, 1878, Hattie H., dau. Rev. Joseph H. 
Phipps. Children — 

Gershom, b. 14 May, 1879. 

Edward Wild, 23 Nov. 1883. 

eSamalicI JJratrforti, acput. 

Second son of Col. Gamaliel; b. Duxbury, 4 Nov. 1763; 
d. Boston, 7 March, 1S24. He received his early education 
under the care of Hon. George Partridge. At the age of thir- 
teen, he accompanied his father to the American camp ; was 
com. ensign in his reg. (14th) in 1779; lieut. 3 Sept. 1780; 
and remained in service until 1783. During the latter 
part of his service he was in Brooks's (7th) reg. After 
the war he followed the sea as a means of livelihood, mak- 
ing a voyage to France in 1784. In 1798 he was offered 
the command of the frigate " Boston " by President Adams, 
but declined the appointment. While commanding a mer- 
chant-ship, in 1799, he was attacked in the Mediterranean by 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. II 3 

four French privateers, whom he successfully resisted. In 
the following year, in beating off two large French armed 
vessels, he received a wound in the thigh, which rendered 
amputation necessary. Quitting the .sea in 1808, he was in 
1 8 13 app. warden of the State Prison. In 1820 he received 
the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard University. 

By his wife, Elizabeth Hickling, he had — 

Dr. Gamaliel. George Partridge, H. U. 1825. 

Sarah, m. Samuel Ripley. John B. 

Elizabeth. Margaret S., m. S. Ames. 

Daniel N., d. 1821. Hannah R., m. A. H. Fiske. 

Martha T., m. J. Bardett. 



DR. GAMALIEL BRADFORD. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Gamaliel, whom he succ. in 1824; b. 
Boston, 17 Nov. 1795; d. there 22 Oct. 1839; H. U. 1814. 
At the age of twelve he accompanied his father on a voyage 
to Europe, and was for nine months a student in a Catholic 
seminary at Messina. He was for one year an assistant 
teacher in the Boston Latin School. He attended the med- 
ical lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1819-20, and 
on his return began practice as a physician in Boston. Dur- 
ing the winter of 1824-25 he delivered an excellent course 
of lectures on physiology in Boston, in connection with Dr. 
John Ware. He gave up practice in 1827; superintended a 
large brewery in South Boston until 1833; and from that 
time till his death was superintendent of the Mass. General 
Hospital. Dr. Bradford was a frequent contributor to the 
journals and periodicals of the day; and his address to the 
Mass. Temperance Society, his Letter to Fletcher, Sprague, 
and Otis on Slavery, and his speech on Slavery before a 
committee of the Mass. House of Representatives in 1831, 
were published in pamphlet form. 



114 blOGKAl'llICAL NUTICKS OK THE 

In March, 182 1, he m. Sophia, dau. of Col. Nathan Rice, by whom 
he had — 

Harriet, 2 Feb. 1827, d. 16 Feb. 1828. 

Francis, 2 Feb. 1829. 

Gamaliel. 

Sarah, 9 May, 1833. 

GAMALIEL BRADFORD. 

Son of Dr. Gamaliel Bradford, whom he succ. in 1852 ; 
was b. Boston, 15 Jan. 1831 ; H. U. 1849. He was a mem- 
ber of the banking firm of Blake Bros. & Co. from 1858 
to 1868, when he retired from business and devoted himself 
to study, chiefly of political science. He has been a volumi- 
nous contributor to newspapers and magazines, especially the 
New York " Nation," but has never published anything in per- 
manent form. He delivered two courses of lectures before 
the Lowell Institute, one on British India and one on Modern 
Europe. ASST. Treas. Soc. of the CINCINNATI from 1877 

to 1887; Treasurer since 1887. 

He m. 30 Oct. 1861, Clara Crowninshield, dau. of Henry W. 
Kinsman. Children — 

Gamaliel, b. 9 Oct. 1863, who m. Helen H. Ford and had 

Gamaliel (seventh of the name), b. i8 June, 1888. 
Charles Kinsman, b. 26 March, 1866, d. 24 July, 1875. 

ilottrt JSratrfort. 

Son of Robert Bradford of Kingston, grandson of John, 
who was the oldest grandson of Gov. William ; b. Plymouth, 
Mass., 1750; d. Belpre, Ohio, 1823. He was in the battle of 
Bunker Hill, and in nearly all the pitched battles fought 
in the Eastern and Middle States, closing his military career 
at Yorktown. He was com. ensign in Bailey's (2d) reg. 
1776; licut. and quarterm. I Jan. 1777, and capt. 21 June, 
1779. He received, with many other ofiicers of light infantry 




y-^^'f/i^. 




CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I I 5 

under the orders of La Fayette, the gift of a sword, which was 
in 1854 in the hands of his only surviving son, O. L. Bradford, 
of Wood Co., Va. He was one of the early pioneers to 
Ohio, having emigrated to Marietta in 1788, and settled at 
Belpre in 1789. By an epidemic, in 1792, he lost all of his 
children but one. He m. Keziah, dau. of Nathaniel Little of 
Kingston. 

Josljua iSramtiaU. 

Com. ensign in Bradford's (14th) reg. 1777; lieut. 5 Feb. 
1779; in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1783; d. before 1812. 

©riflin* iJnflfjam, pt.Ii. 

He was the son of Francis and Phebe (Ward) Brigham, 
of New Marlboro', Mass. ; was surgeon's mate in Warner's 
reg. I Aug. 1777; com. in Bailey's (2d") reg. 25 April, 1781. 
He m. Eleanor Soule, and resided after the war, as a prac- 
tising physician, in Schoharie, N. Y., where he d. about 1815. 

Dot)n iSrooUs, M.M., ILH.B. 

Son of Capt. Caleb and Ruth (Albree) Brooks ; was b. 
in Medford, Mass., 31 May, 1752; d. there i March, 1825. 
He attended the town school, where he formed an intimacy 
with Benjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford, with 
whom he kept up a correspondence until the death of the 
Count. At the age of fourteen he was received into the 
family of Dr. Simon Tufts, who educated him for the medical 
profession. 

At the age of twenty-one he began the practice of medi- 
cine in Reading, and was soon afterwards chosen captain of 
a company of minute-men of that town. At their head he 
marched on the memorable 19th of April, and in the vicinity 
of Concord met the British on their retreat. The talent and 

* So written on the autograph list. 



Il6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

bravery he displayed on that occasion procured his promo- 
tion. In May, 1775, he was chosen major of Bridge's reg., 
and on i Jan., 1776, Congress appointed him major of 
Webb's (19th) reg. 

On the night of the i6th of June, 1775, he volunteered 
his services in intrenching Bunker Hill and in watching the 
movements of the enemy, and on the morning of the 17th 
was sent by Col. Prescott to Gen. Ward at Cambridge for 
reinforcements. Being obliged to perform this duty on foot, 
he could take no part in the contest on the hill. 

His reg. was present at the siege of Boston and the retreat 
from Long Island, and in the battle of White Plains so ably 
covered the retreat as to receive the acknowledgments of 
Washington for its gallant conduct. It was included in the 
division which, under Gen. Lee, reinforced Washington on 
the right bank of the Delaware. Major Brooks bore his 
share of the hardships of the winter campaign, and remained 
with the regiment until the term of its enlistment had 
expired. 

He was made lieut.-col. of Michael Jackson's (8th) regi- 
ment, I Jan., 1777, which he commanded in consequence of 
the disability of its colonel. Joining the Northern army, he 
volunteered with his command in August for the relief of 
Fort Stanwix, then attacked by Col. St. Leger ; and to Brooks, 
it is said, belongs the merit of having planned the successful 
ruse by which that object was effected. 

In the battle between Gates and Burgoyne, on Bemis 
Heights, 19 Sept., Lieut.-Col. Brooks occupied the ex- 
treme left of the American line, and was engaged with the 
German troops. His regiment was the last to quit the field. 
In the still more important and severely contested action of 
the 7th of October, Brooks's regiment was particularly con- 
spicuous. He turned the right of the enemy's encampment, 
and stormed the redoubt occupied by the Germans. Their 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I I 7 

commander, Col. Breyman, was killed, and the works were 
gallantly carried, Brooks's regiment remaining masters of the 
ground. In Col. Trumbull's picture of the surrender of 
Burgoyne, Brooks is a prominent figure. His conduct in 
this battle is thus described by an eyewitness: "When the 
Colonel saw that the decisive moment had come, he lifted his 
sword in the air and cried, ' Follow your Colonel at double 
quick ! ' He immediately led the way to the top of the in- 
trenchments, crying, ' Come on, come on ! ' They did come 
on ; and a most bloody and violent conflict ensued, in which 
they decided the fate of the day." 

Brooks then joined the army under Washington, and while 
at Valley Forge was named in special orders to assist Baron 
Steuben in bringing into practice his new system of military 
tactics. 

When the British evacuated Philadelphia, Washington 
marched in pursuit. At Monmouth, 28 June, 1778, the two 
armies came in conflict; and Col. Brooks, as adjutant-gen- 
eral to Gen. Lee, was prominent in the events of the day. 
He was commissioned, il Nov., 1778, lieut.-col. commanding 
the 7th continental regiment, formerly Alden's. After the 
troops had again taken post on the banks of the Hudson, 
Brooks was employed under Steuben as inspector, in which 
position he rendered valuable service, acquired the confi- 
dence of Washington, and established an enviable reputa- 
tion alike for military science and personal qualities. This 
was especially shown upon the appearance of the " Newburgh 
Addresses," in March, 1783. Washington, to whom this 
was a most an.xious moment, appealed to the officers to 
withhold their countenance from the suggestions they con- 
tained. Col. Brooks was one of the committee of officers 
who e.xpressed their views upon this subject in resolutions, 
the importance of which in quieting the excitement of the 
army at this critical moment cannot be overestimated. " On 



IlS BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

this occasion the Commander-in-Chief rode up to Brooks 
with intent to ascertain how the officers stood aftected. Find- 
ing him, as he expected, to be sound, he requested him to 
keep his officers in their quarters, to prevent them from at- 
tending the insurgent meeting. Brooks repHed, ' Sir, I have 
anticipated your wishes, and my orders are given.' Wash- 
ington, with tears in his eyes, took him by the hand and said, 
' Col. Brooks, this is just what I expected from you.' " 

Like most of his brothers-in-arms, Brooks retired in pov- 
erty from the service of his country, and at once resumed 
his profession in Medford and its vicinity, as the successor 
of his old friend. Dr. Tufts. 

In 1786 he was made maj.-gen. 3d division Mass. militia, 
and in 1798 was nominated a brig.-gen. of the provisional 
army, but declined. He was frequently chosen a representa- 
tive to the General Court; and as a member of the Conven- 
tion of 1788, by wliich the Constitution of the U. S. was 
adopted, gave to that measure a hearty support. For sev- 
eral years he was a senator for the county of Middlesex, 
and a member of the Executive Council ; U. S. Marshal for 
the District of Mass. 1791-96; and appointed 20 Dec. 1796, 
Inspector of the Revenue for Survey No. 2, in the District 
of Mass. During the war of 18 12 Gov. Strong appointed 
him adjutant-gen. of the State. 

From 18 16 to 1823, Brooks was Governor of Massachu- 
setts, bringing the State to a good degree of internal har- 
mony, and allaying party animosities, — a task for which he 
was admirably fitted. His addresses to the legislature dis- 
play large and liberal views of the policy of the State. In 
the language of Chief-Justice Parker, " he maintained the 
dignity of the office, and thereby honored the people who 
bestowed it; receiving all distinguished strangers with be- 
coming attention and courtesy. Bred in the best school of 
manners, — a military association of higii-minded, accom- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 1 9 

plished officers, — his deportment, though grave and dignified 
like Washington's, was nevertheless warm and affectionate. In 
the chair of state, when receiving the gratulations of a happy- 
people on the birthday of their independence ; on the mili- 
tary field, reviewing our national guard, the militia; at his 
own humble but honored mansion, taking to his breast his 
early friend, ' the nation's guest,' — what young man of taste 
and feeling could be unmoved at his soldierly air, his grace- 
ful demeanor, covering but not impairing the generous feel- 
ings of a warm and affectionate heart ! He was one of the 
last and best samples of that old school of manners, which, 
though it has given way to the ease and convenience of mod- 
ern times, will be regretted by some as having carried away 
with it many of the finest and most delicate traits of social 
intercourse." 

As a physician he ranked in the first class of practitioners, 
possessing in an eminent degree those qualities which were 
calculated to render him the most useful in his professional 
labors, and the delight of those to whom he administered 
relief. His mind was well furnished with practical knowl- 
edge, and he was sympathetic, patient, and attentive. 

After his voluntary retirement from the chair of state, he 
still continued to serve the community in various positions of 
trust and responsibility. He was president of the Mass. 
Medical Society, of the Washington Monument Society, 
of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and of the 
Mass. Bible Society. He was the first Secretary of the 
Cincinnati of Mass.\chusetts (1783-86), and delivered 
(1787) the first of the series of Fourth of July orations in- 
augurated by the Society. He was PRESIDENT of the 
Mass. Society from 18 10 until his death, and was Vice- 
President of the GENERAL Society, 181 1-25. From Har- 
vard he received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1787, of 
M.D. in 1810, and of LL.D. in 1817. 



I20 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

His descent from Thomas'^ Brooks, who came as supposed from 
Suffolk, Eng., settled in Watertown, 1631, and finally in Concord in 
1636, where he d. 21 May, 1667, was through Caleb,^ b. 1632, d. 
29 July, 1696; Ehenezer^ b. 24 Feb. 1670, d. 11 Feb. 1743, m. 
Abigail, dau. of Dr. Thomas Boylston, who d. 26 May, i 756, ae. 82 ; 
Caleb* (his father), b. 8 July, 1694, d. 21 Nov. 1766, m. 2d Ruth 
Albree, i Mar. 1750. 

John m. Lucy Smith, who d. 26 Sept. 1791, ae. 38. They had — 
Lucy, 16 June, 1775, m. 2 Oct. 1803, Rev. John O'Kill Stuart 
of Kingston, C. W., d. 1813, leaving one child, Geo. O'Kill 
Stuart, who has been Mayor of Quebec. 
Alexander Scammell. 

John, 20 May, 1 783, fell at the battle of Lake Erie, 10 Sept. 1813, 
unm. He began to study medicine, but afterward entered the 
navy, and was killed in the action with an English squadron, a 
cannon-ball having severed one leg from his body at the hip. 

ALEXANDER SCAMMELL BROOKS. 

He was the only surviving son of Gov. John Brooks, whom 
he SUGG, in 1825 ; b. Medford, 19 Oct. 1781 ; killed 19 Dec. 
1836, by a steamboat explosion, at St. John's bar, coast of 
Florida. App. first lieut. U. S. light artillery, 3 May, 1808 ; 
capt. 3d artillery, 12 March, 1812 ; brevet major, for gallantry 
at Plattsburg, 11 Sept. 1814; major 3d artillery, 26 April, 
1832; lieut.-col. 4th artillery, 6 April, 1835. 

He m. 28 ISLay, 181 7, Sarah Turner of Boston. Their children 
were — 

John, who d. a Passed Midshipman U. S. N., 4 June, 1843. 

Lucy, who m. 30 May, 1843, Hon. Edward L. Keyes of Dedham, 
d. 10 May, 1887. They had : Caivline Florence, 23 March, 
1844; Alexander B., and George Stuart his twin, 28 July, 
1846; Edward Livingston, 26 Sept. 1848 

ALEXANDER BROOKS KEYES. 

Son of Edward L. and Lucy { Brooks) Keyes ; great-grand- 
son of Gov. John, and grandson of Alexander S. Brooks, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 121 

whom he succ. in 1869 ; b. Dedham, Mass., 28 July, 1846. 
Capt. Keyes was com. 2d Heut. ist batt. Mass. heavy artil- 
lery, 28 May, 1864; 2d lieut. 12th U. S. inf. 23 Feb. 1866; 
1st lieut. 30th U. S. inf. 9 Feb. 1867; brevet-capt. 2 March, 
1867, for gallant and meritorious services during the war; 
transferred to lOth cavalry, i April, 1870, and commissioned 
capt. 6 Dec. 1873. 

He m. I Feb. 1870, Virginia, dau. of Lucien B. Maxwell, at Cim- 
maron, N. Max. Children — 
Berenice M., b. 21 Nov. 1870. 
Alexander H., b. 4 March, 1872, d. 25 Aug. 1872. 
Maxwell, b. 15 July, 1873. 
Lucy Brooks, b. 12 Sept. 1874. 
Alexander Brooks, b. 18 Nov. 1877, d. 2 Jan. 1880. 
Edward A., b. 30 Aug. 1880. 
Ethel F., b. 31 Dec. 1884. 
Geoffrey, b. 30 Oct. 1888. 

ISfJcncitr JBroton. 

He was b. Quincy, Mass., April, 1757; d. Newton Corner, 
Mass., I Sept. 1844. Private in the Co. of minute-men of 
Capt. P. B. Adams, in Dec. 1774; corporal in Jacob Loud's 
Co. of Greaton's reg. 1775 ; transferred to Thayer's Co. 
of Whitney's reg. 1776; sergeant in Judah Alden's Co. of 
Bailey's (2d) reg. 1777; com. ensign in Bailey's, 28 Sept. 
1777; com. lieut. in Vose's ( 1st) reg. 21 March, 1782, in which 
he served until the reg. was disbanded, 3 Nov. 1783. He 
was in several battles preceding that of Saratoga, where he 
was wounded by a musket-ball in the right shoulder; served 
in Vose's light inf. reg. under La Fayette, in the Virginia 
campaign ; was in several skirmishes, including those of 
Hot Water Springs and Green Springs, and was at the siege 
of Yorktown. 



122 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. Feb. 1789, Hannah Parker of Roxbury, and had : Eliza- 
beth ; Frederick W. S. A. ; and Catfl^rine, who d. young. 

FREDERICK VV. S. A. BROWN. 

Eldest son of Ebenezer, whom he succ. in 1845 ; b. 1792; 
master of signals in Boston Harbor for twenty-five years, and 
d. Boston, 5 July, 1850. 

®Iit)cr iSroton. 

He was b. Lexington, Mass., 25 July, 1753 ; com. lieut. in 
Gridley's artillery in 1775; in Knox's in 1776; capt. -lieut. 
in Crane's in 1779. After the war he was an innholder in 
Concord until 1789, when he removed to Virginia, and set- 
tled on the Ohio River, giving to the place the name of 
Browtivillc. He was living there on a government pension 
in 1820. He is credited with a service in the army of 
three years and six months, to 28 May, 1779. 

His descent from John Browii^ of Watertown, 1632, d. 1636, 
ae. 36, and his wife Dorothy, was through John^ b. England, 1 63 1 , who 
m. 24 April, 1655, Esther or Hester Makepeace; Joseph,^ b. 1677, 
d. II Jan. 1764, who m. in Watertown, 15 Nov. 1699, Ruhamah 
Wellington ; Bcnjajitin* (his father), bap. 3 July, 1720, d. iSoi, m. 
22 Dec. 1742, Sarah, dau. of Wm. Reed. 

lETrtoartr JSuflficc. 

He was b. Roxbury, Mass., 3 July, 1756; d. 31 Oct. 1804. 
Com. lieut. and quartermaster in Baldwin's reg. of artificers, 
1777; 1st lieut. in Parker's Co., same reg., 12 Nov. 1779; later 
he served in Hazen's reg. His name does not appear on the 
autograph list of the Mass. Society ; but he contributed his 
month's pay, and his name is on the parchment roll in the 
archives of the General Society. 

His descent from Edward Biigby^ who came to this country in 
1634 and settled in Roxbury, Mass.. was through Joseph ^^ b. Rox- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 23 

bury, 6 June, 1640, who m. Experience Pitcher; Edward^ b. Rox- 
bury, Jan. 31, 1669, who m. Abigail Hall; Datiicl^ (his father), b. 
Roxbury, 14 July, 1703, who m. Abigail Rice. 

He m. Ruth Blackman, by whom he had several children. 

^sa JSuIIarTr. 

He was b. Sherborn, Mass., 27 April, 1758; d. there 
23 Dec. 1804, leaving no child. He was a private in Benj. 
Bullard's Co., Jona. Brewer's reg., in May-Dec. 1775, and 
present at Lexington and Bunker Hill; com. ensign in S. 
Brewer's 12th reg. 7 Oct. 1777; lieut. in Sprout's (12th) reg. 

5 July. 1779. 

His descent from Benjamin ^ BiiUard of Watertown in 1637 ^^s 
through Benjamin^ one of the first settlers of Sherborn, who d. 1689, 
and Martha Fairbank of Dedham ; Capt. Samuel,^ b. 26 Dec. 1667, 
d. 10 Dec. 1727, who m. June, 1690, Deborah, dau. of James Ather- 
ton ; Lieut. Benjamin* b. 16 Feb. 1697, ^- 1762, m. 20 Dec. 1721, 
Miriam, dau. of Samuel Morse; Qo\. Samuel^ (his father), b. 2 Aug. 
1729, d. 5 March, 1807, m. 10 July, 1754, Mary, dau. of James 
Coolidge. 

JAMES BULLARD. 

He was the grandson of James, the eldest bro. of Lieut. 
Asa, and was b. Sherborn, 20 Jan. 1813; adm. 1859. He 
inherited the homestead in Sherborn, and is a merchant and 
farmer. He was one of the selectmen of the town for several 
years and has also served as assessor, and in other offices. 

He m. 18 Aug. 1841, Elizabeth M., dau. of Mark Lothrop. 
Children — 

Edward Bretney, b. 27 Aug. 1843; d. 9 March, 1885, leaving 

one son, Harold Kendall, b. 14 Oct. 1874. 
Agnes Howard, b. 31 May, 1848. 
Marietta Leslie, b. 4 Dec. 1850. 
Carrie Isabel, b. 28 Dec. 1852. 



124 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

^tnvs 13urt)ecfe. 

The following letter, written by Gen. Burbeck, when in his 
ninety-third year, to Charles S. Daveis, Esq., of Portla'nd, 
dated 20 Aug. 1846, comprises the principal events of his 
career: — 

" My native place is Boston, where I was born in the year i 754. 
I spent the early part of my hfe at Old Castle William (now Fort 
Independence, Boston Harbor), with my father, who was the second 
officer in command. My education was not such as can be obtained 
now in the same situation of life, but on a par with the rest of the 
officers in general. As they obtamed the object they desired (viz., 
the independence of the country), a classical education could not 
have done more or better. I attended the common writing-school 
of the day, eighty years ago, under the superintendence of ' Master 
Tileston,' but for the principal part of my education I am indebted 
to my father. 

" When the battle of Lexington took place, I was in Boston, 
where every boat and means was taken to prevent the inhabitants 
from leaving the town. In a short time provisions grew scarce, and 
regulations were then made for the citizens to leave ; and, a pass be- 
ing given, their trunks, &c., were examined by British officers, for 
arms of all kinds. My father being proscribed, and in the pay of the 
British ordnance department, by a previous arrangement some time 
before made his escape by crossing from Noddle's Island (now East 
Boston) to Cambridge, and reported himself to the ' Committee ©f 
Safety,' or ' Provincial Congress,' of which Dr. Joseph Warren was 
chairman or president. 

" I left Boston soon after, as a member of a family of my acquaint- 
ance, and proceeded to Cambridge ; there joined my father, who 
was making arrangements for a laboratory to prepare ammunition, 
&c. I then joined a company of volunteers, commanded by Captain 
Horton (with two six-pounders). On the 19th May, 1775, I re- 
ceived a commission, signed by Dr. Joseph Warren, which I thmk is 
one of the oldest commissions in the Revolutionary service. I was 
appointed a lieutenant in the Massachusetts line, commanded by 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 25 

Colonel Richard Gridley,* and again appointed on the ist January, 
1776, a lieutenant in a regiment of artillery in the Massachusetts line 
of the continental army, commanded by Colonel Henry Knox. 
Again appointed the ist January, 1777, a captain-lieutenant in a 
regiment of artillery in the Massachusetts line, commanded by 
Colonel John Crane. Was promoted to a captaincy in said regiment 
and line the 12th September, 1777, and continued in that regiment 
to the end of the war, 1783, at which time the army was disbanded 
and I returned to private life with the brevet rank of major. 

" During the campaign of 1775 I remained with the army at Cam- 
bridge. In April, 1776, I marched with the army to the city of 
New York, and remained with it until the evacuation, September, 
1776. During the different operations of that year I was at White 
Plains and New Jersey, &c. In the year 1777 I joined the army at 
Saratoga, remained with it a short time, and was ordered to join the 
main army in Pennsylvania, under the command of General Wash- 
ington, and was with it during the different engagements at Brandy- 
wine, Germantown, &c., and closed the campaign at Valley Forge. 
In 1778 I marched with the army from Valley Forge through New 
Jersey, and was engaged at the battle of Monmouth. I remained 
with the army at White Plains during the campaigns of 1779, r78o, 
1 781, 1782, and 1783, in the States of Connecticut, New York, and 
New Jersey. In October, i 786, I was again called into service, and 
appointed a captain in a battalion of artillery, commanded by Major 
John Doughty. In 1787 and 1788 I was stationed at West Point, 
inactive. In August, i 789, I was ordered with my company to join 
General Lincoln, Colonel Humphries, and Mr. Griffin, to Georgia, 
as commissioners to form a treaty with the Creek nation ; but through 
some misunderstanding the treaty failed. The next year it was again 
renewed, and accomplished in New York. I then returned to New 
York, and raised a company. Was ordered back to Georgia, 
and built a fort on St. Mary's River, then the boundaries of the United 
States. I remained in command until June, 1792 ; then, being pro- 
moted to a major, I joined the army at Pittsburg, raised for the de- 
fence of the frontiers, under the command of General Anthony 
Wayne. On the 30th April, i 793, we took boats and floated down 

* His name does not appear in the list of officers in Col. Henshaw's orderly 
book of July, 1775. 



126 lUOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

the Ohio river to Legionville, and there spent the winter. In Octo- 
ber (same year), the army marched six miles in advance of Fort 
Jefferson, 80 or 90 miles from Cincinnati, into the enemy's country. 
On the 23d December, 1793, I was ordered with a detachment, con- 
sisting of eight companies of infantry and one of artillery, with orders 
to take possession of the field of action of the 4th November, i 791, 
and there to fortify and establish a post, which was called Fort Re- 
covery. After completing the work, and recovering two brass field- 
pieces, which were sunk in a branch of the river Wabash, near the 
battle-ground, and collecting a great number of skulls (say 200), 
also many bones, we paid the last respects to those who fell on the 
4th November, 1791, by three times three from the same artillery 
that was lost on that fatal day, but now recovered by this detach- 
ment of the legion. I returned to the cantonment, and received a 
handsome compliment in general orders for my services. In August, 
1 794, the army marched into the enemy's country. On the 20th of 
that month an action took place, which resulted in the total defeat of 
the Indians ; and a peace took place, with a surrender of all the 
posts of ours in their possession. In September, 1796, I went with 
two companies to take possession and command at Fort Mackinaw, 
where I remained until 1800. I was then ordered to Washington, 
from whence I superintended the forts from Norfolk to Portland un- 
til the war of 181 2, when I commanded at New York, Newport, 
New London, and Greenbush. At the close of the war in 181 5, not 
being retained on the peace establishment, I returned to private life, 
a poor citizen, after serving my country for nearly 40 years. I have 
resided in this place with my wife ever since 1815, and have had six 
children, four of whom are now living." 

Gen. Burbeck was PRESIDENT of the MASS. See. CiN. from 
1846 to his death. He was buried at the Cedar Grove Ceme- 
tery, New London ; and over his grave the Society erected a 
handsome granite monument. Upon the front of the obelisk, 
on a shield, is the following inscription: — 

BRIGADIER-GENERAL HENRY BURBECK, 

Born in Boston, Mass., June 8, 1754; 
Died at New London, October 2, 1848. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSET IS. 12'] 

Upon the cube on which the obelisk stands is engraven : 

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati dedicate this mon- 
ument to the memory of their late honored President. He was an 
officer of the United States from the commencement of the Revolu- 
tionary war until near the close of his hfe. By a patriotic and faith- 
ful discharge of the high and responsible duties of a gallant soldier, 
and an exemplary citizen, he became as justly and eminently dis- 
tinguished as he was rightfully and universally respected. 

Erected MDCCCL. 

Col. Wm. Burbeck, his father, was of EngHsh parentage, but b. 
Boston, 1715, and d. there 22 July, 1785. He was a carver, and 
his work is still visible on the Corinthian pillars in King's Chapel. 
He studied gunnery and artillery, and was many years stationed as 
gunner at Castle William in Boston Harbor. He was lieut.-col. of 
the artillery in the winter of 1775-76, and subsequently resumed his 
post at the Castle. His name appears in the list of Commissioned 
officers of the Mass.' line in 1777-79 ^s " Colonel of y" train and 
Com' at Lab'y." 

Gen. Henry, by his wife Lucy E. Rudd, had : Sus.iN Henrietta, 
23 Sept. 1815, m. Lieut. E. Kibby, and d. 15 Sept. 1839 ; Char- 
lotte Augusta, 8 March, 1818 ; Henry Wm., 31 May, 18 19, d. 19 
Feb. 1840; Mary Elizabeth, 7 March, 1821, m. Chandler Smith, 
N. Y. ; WiLLLiM Henry; John Cathcart, i Feb. 1826. 

WILLIAM HENRY BURBECK. 

Eldest son of Gen. Henry, whom he succ. in 1850; b. New 
London, 3 Oct. 1823; resides in that city; engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits. 

Joljn iSurnam.* 

He was b. Ipswich, Mass., 10 Dec. 1749; d. Derry, N. H., 
8 June, 1843 ; was a lieut. in Warner's Co. of Little's reg. at 

* The name is given as it appears in the autograph list. 



128 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Bunker Hill, and in the battles of BrookI}-n, Trenton, and 
Princeton; com. capt. of light infantry in M. Jackson's (8th) 
reg. I Jan. 1777, and in the battles with Burgoyne, relief of 
Fort Stanwix, battle of Monmouth, and capture of Stony 
Point; served under Greene in 1780, and under La Fayette 
in Virginia, and was one of the storming party at the capture 
of the British redoubt at Yorktown ; com. major 9 Jan. 1783. 
Col. John Brooks, who commanded the 8th in the absence of 
Col. M. Jackson, said of Burnam that he was one of the best 
disciplinarians and most gallant officers of the Revolution. 
He was one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, in 1788, and 
owned a valuable estate at the mouth of the Muskingum 
River; but left it, and settled in Derry, N. H. 

His descent from Dea. John''- Buniham, Sen., of Ipswich, 1635, 
who d. 5 Nov. 1694, and Mary his wife, was through John^ who d. 
I 716 ; John? who m. Ann, dau. of Capt. Thomas Choate ; Samuel » 
(his father), who m. 17 Nov. 1743, Martha Story. Maj. John m. 
Abigail Collins, by whom he had — 

S.AMUEL, a sea-captain, commanded a privateer in the war of 

1 81 2, lost at sea. 
Eliza, who m. John Doland. 
Abig.«l Maria, m. Jonathan Ireland. 
Charles, d. young. 

John, a merchant in Cincinnati, d. in Dunbarton of consumption 
and left two daus. : one m. Groesbeck of Cincin., and the other 
a Gallagher. 
George, b. 1802, d. i Jan. 185 i, m. 1828, Eliza A. McNiel, and 
had four sons. 

JOHN J DOLAND. 

Grandson and eldest male heir of Major John Burnam, 
whom he succ. in 1872; was b. Derry, N. H., 29 Aug. 1826; 
d. 6 April, 1884. He resided in Lawrence, Mass., for over 31 
years; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives for the years 1862 and 1863 ; President of the City 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 29 

Council of Lawrence in 1868 and 1869; Secretary of the 
Essex County Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute for a 
number of years ; and Assistant Editor of the New England 
Odd Fellows' Journal during its continuance. He also held 
many minor municipal offices. 

He was of Stoughton, Mass., where he d. in Jan. 1785. In 
May, 1775, he was an ensign in Heath's reg. ; was a lieut. 
in Greaton's (24th) reg. at siege of Boston; com. capt. -lieut. 
in Crane's artillery, i Jan. 1777, and served through the war. 

J)oi)n (Tallcntcr. 

He was the son of Eliezer Callender of Boston, and d. 
Alexandria, Va., in Oct. 1797. He was a member of Pad- 
dock's Artillery Co. before the Revolution, and com. a com- 
pany of artillery belonging to Gridley's reg. at the battle of 
Bunker Hill. Having expended all his cartridges early in the 
action, a supply of six-pounder cartridges was sent him for 
his four-pounder guns, and he ordered his men out of the 
range of the enemy's shot, so that the cartridges might be 
reduced, and thus enable him to resume his fire. At this mo- 
ment Putnam rode up, ordered him back, and charged him 
with cowardice, upon which charge a court-martial, held 
shortly after the battle, sentenced him to be cashiered. He 
then joined Capt. John Johnston's Co., and in May, 1776, ap- 
pears on the roll of Capt. Pierce's Co., in N. Y., as a " cadet." 
In the battle of Brooklyn, L. I., 26 Aug. i yyO, he was wounded, 
his superior officers killed ; and he took command of the 
pieces, which were served with great coolness, courage, and 
effect until its close, when he was taken prisoner. As soon 
as he was exchanged, Washington directed the sentence of 
the court-martial to be erased from the orderly book, restored 
9 



130 BIUGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

him to his rank, and gave liim command of several important 
stations. Capt.-lieut. in Crane's art. i Jan. 1777, to the close 
of the war; in Sullivan's R. I. campaign in 1778. After the 
war he was a merchant in Virginia. 

JOHN CALLENDER. 
Son of Capt. Eliezer of Virginia, and nephew of Capt. -Lieut. 
John, whom he succ. in 1802. Assist. Sec. of the Society 
1806-8 and 1809-21; Sec. 1821-33. He was b. Boston, 4 
Feb. 1772; d. there 20 Nov. 1833 ; entered the Latin School 
in 1779; grad. at H. U. 1790; was an attorney, representa- 
tive in the Mass. Legislature, clerk of the Sup. Judicial Court, 
and a lieut. in the Boston Light Infantry on its institution in 
1798. He delivered the oration before the town authorities 
of Boston, July 4, 1797. Of him it was said by Rev. Dr. 
Baury: "He was the life of the Society and the soul of 
Concert Hall." 

Eliezer, his father, m. 23 Nov. 1768, Elizabeth, sister of Gov. 
Gore. John m. 23 Nov. 1 794, Catharine Templeman of George- 
town, Md. ; had no issue. 

JWoscs Carlcton. 

Of Boxford ; d. 26 Sept. 1835 ; sergeant in Putnam's (5th) 
reg. I Jan. 1777; com. ensign and quartermaster, 1780; com. 
lieut. (same reg.) 7 May, 1782. He resided in Haverhill after 
the war, and was a government pensioner. He left one 
child, Lemuel C, of Newmarket, N. H. 

©sijooTi Carlfton. 

Of Haverhill, son of Jeremiah and Eunice (Taylor) Carle- 
ton ; b. 1742; d. Litchfield, N. H., June, 18 16. He served in 
the Provincial army at Louisburg; entered the Rev. army in 
April, 1775 ; was ensign and quartermaster in Sargent's (i6th) 
reg. in 1776; lieut. in Bigelow's (15th) reg. 1777; trans- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I3I 

ferred to McFarland's (invalid) reg. in Dec. 177S, in conse- 
quence of general debility, and granted half-pay. After the 
war, he taught mathematics in Boston and elsewhere ; and 
published maps of Boston* and of N. H., Mass., and the 
U. S., and treatises on mathematics and navigation. He was 
a noted pedestrian. His widow Lydia was living in Fran- 
cestown, N. H., in 1822. 

IJftcr (Kastainfl. 

Of France; com. licut. in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. 24 
April, 1779; aide to Gen. Duportail ; in 3d reg. 1783. 

SHattf)ciiJ CCijamtJcrs. 

Of Chelmsford; d. Dunstable, ab. 1809, leaving a widow, 
Martha. Lieut, in Varnum's (9th) reg. 1776; com. capt. 
in Nixon's (6th) reg. 11 Nov. 1779; served through the war. 

.Samuel Cljapiit. 

He was b. Springfield, Mass., 18 June, 1750; was in 
Natchitoches, La., in 18 10, and prob. d. there unm. He was 
a lieut. in Paterson's reg. in 1775-76; com. 2d lieut. in Shep- 
ard's (4th) reg. i Nov. 1777; com. istlieut.20 March, 1779; 
afterward in H. Jackson's (4th) reg. 

His descent from Dea. Samuel^ Chapin of Boston, 1641, who 
removed to Springfield in 1642, d. 11 Nov. 1675, and wife Cisily, 
was through Japhet^ b. 1642, d. 20 Feb. 1712, m. 22 July, 1664, 
Abilenah Cooley ; Samuel^ b. 4 July, 1665, d. 19 Oct. 1729, m. 24 
Dec. 1690, Hannah Sheldon ; Elisha * (his father), b. 16 July, 1707, 
com. at Fort Massachusetts in 1754, massacred by Indians at Hoo- 
sack near Williamstown, 11 July, 1756, m. 30 March, 1737-38, 
Miriam, dau. of Joseph and Margaret Ely. His nephew Wm. Dewey 
of Springfield applied for admission unsuccessfully in 1853. 

* His first map of Boston, drawn in 1795, "f''oni actual surveys," was 14 1-2 
X 9 inches- In iSoo he issued "a new plan of Boston," 27 x 20 inches. 



132 BIOGRAI'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

(taltb mav. 

He was the son of Joel and Elizabeth (Burke) Clap, and 
was b. Hardwick, Mass., 9 Feb. 1752 ; d. Greenfield, Mass., 5 
June, 1812. His great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Clap, was 
born in Dorchester, Eng., in 1612, and came to America in 
1633, in company with his bro. Thomas, having been preceded 
in 1630 by his cousin, Capt. Roger Clap of Salcombe Regis. 
He settled in Dorchester, Mass. ; was twice married, — first, 
to his cousin Sarah, sister of Capt. Roger Clap (commander 
of the Castle, capt. of the Dorchester Co., and lieut. of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co.) ; second, to Abigail, 
widow of Robert Sharp, of Brookline. He was a large land- 
owner in Dorchester and the neighboring towns, and gave 
to the town of Dorchester, by deed, the rents and profits 
of Thompson's Island for the support of a free school. He 
d. 24 Nov. 1679. 

Caleb Clap was one of the first to respond to the call to 
arms in 1775, serving as a private at Lexington and Bunker 
Hill. In Aug., 1775, he was sergt.-major in Col. Doolittle's 
reg. ; in 1776 ensign in the 26th Mass. reg. ; in 1777-82 lieut. 
and adjt. in Wesson's (9th) reg.; com. capt. in H. Jackson's 
(4th) reg. 9 April, 1782, serving until the close of the war. 
He then settled in Greenfield, Mass., and represented the 
town in the General Court in 1799. 

He m. 17 March, 1782, at Rutland, Mass., Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. 
John and Lucy F. Stone. They had two sons (who died young) 
and seven daughters. 

GEORGE CLAPP TRUMBULL. 

He was the son of George A. and Louisa (Clap) Trumbull, 
and the eldest grandson of Capt. Caleb Clap, whom he succ. 
in 1873; b. Worcester, Mass., i March, 18 18; d. Cambridge, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 33 

Mass., 25 Ma}', 1885. He was asst. quartermaster-general 
on Gov. Andrew's staff from 1863 until the close of the 
war; U. S. pension agent for Mass. from 1865 to 1870; 
treasurer North End Savings Bank from 1870 until his death. 

He ni. at Antrim, N. H., 21 Oct. 1865, Nancy Moore, dau. of 
Mark and Alice B. Woodbury. 

CHARLES PERKINS TRUMBULL. 

Brother of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1886; b. 12 
Sept. 1830. He was educated at Worcester, Mass., and at 
Bridgeport, Ct. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he en- 
listed in the light infantry Co. of Newburyport, and marched 
to Washington through Baltimore. After serving the three 
months' term, he enlisted in the 34th Mass. reg., and served 
as quartermaster's sergeant. After the war he was appointed 
inspector in the Boston Custom-House. Resides in Beverly, 
Mass. 

He m. I June, 18S7, Sarah H., dau. of Amos Heywood. 

He was a twin bro. of Capt. Caleb, and was b. Hardwick, 
Mass., 9 Feb. 1752; d. Montgomery, Vt, 5 Nov. 1810. Com. 
lieut. in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. i Jan. 1777; was in the cam- 
paign against Burgoyne, and severely wounded at Stillwater; 
afterward in Wesson's (9th) reg. as lieut. and quartermaster. 
After the war he m. Nabby, sister of Charles Barnard of 
Boston, and in 1792 removed to Montgomery, Vt., being 
the first settler in that town. He was elected to the Leg- 
islature of Vt. during the years 1803-7 and 1808-10. It 
is said that the resemblance between the two brothers was 
so perfect that they could not be distinguished, the one 
from the other, except by their dress. They were of the 
" old school," — intelligent, affable, polite, and accessible 
to all. 



134 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Their descent from Deacon Nicholas Clap^ mentioned above, 
was through Nathaniel;^ h. 15 Sept. 1640, d. 16 May, 1707, who 
m. 31 March, i658, Elizabeth, dau. of Lawrence Smith; Deacon 

Johnj^h. 7 April, 1671, d. 26 Nov. 1735, ^^o m. Silence , 1699, 

and resided in Sudbury, Mass. ; John,^ oldest child of Deacon John 
and Silence Clap, b. 21 March, 1700, d. 12 April, 1788, who m. 
March, 1723, Abigail Estabrook ; Jocl^ (their father), oldest 
son of John and Abigail, b. 2 July, 1726, d. in 1770, who m 
Elizabeth Burke, 14 Oct. 1749. He was at one time in the 
army during the French war. 

JOEL CLAPP, D.D. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Joshua, whom he succ. in 1838; was 
b. Montgomery, Vt. (the first person born in tliat town), 14 
Sept. 1793; d. Claremont, N. H., 21 Feb. 1861. In 1810 he 
entered the University of Vermont, but the sudden death of 
his father compelled his return home the ne.xt year. He 
afterward studied law, and was admitted to practice ; but 
that profession not proving congenial, he turned his atten- 
tion to theology, and, 2 Oct. 1818, was ordained deacon in 
the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Griswold of Mas- 
sachusetts, who also ordained him as priest, 17 Sept. 18 19. 
He was rector of -the Trinity Church in Shclburne, Vt., for 
eight years, doing a great deal of missionary work. In 1828 
he began to confine his labors to Bethel and Woodstock. In 
1832 he accepted a call to Gardiner, Me., where he remained 
eight years, and in 1848 became rector of a parish in Bellows 
Falls, Vt., remaining there ten years. In 1858 he took 
charge of St. Philip's Church, Philipstown, New York. In 
i860 he accepted the post of chaplain and superintendent 
of the Home for the Aged and Orphans, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 
On account of failing health he withdrew from this office, 
and returned to the parishes of Montgomery and Berkshire 
in Vermont, closing his work just where it was begun forty 
years before. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 35 

He represented his diocese in seven sessions of the Gen- 
eral Convention, was thirteen years secretary of the Diocesan 
Convention, and for seven years was president of the Stand- 
ing Committee. He received the degree of D.D. from Nor- 
wich University in 1849. The character of Rev. Dr. Clapp 
is thus summed up by a writer in the " American Quarterly 
Church Review," for 1861 : " His most striking excellences 
were humility, modesty, and kindness ; sympathy with sor- 
row and suffering; and forbearance in judgment. He was 
also remarkable for an entire surrender of heart and purpose 
to truth and simplicity. The character of Dr. Clapp's mind 
was rather solid than brilliant. With him religion was rather 
a faith to be received, a life to lead, than a system of theo- 
logical opinion." 

He m. abt. 1 8 1 6, Abigail Peckham of Petersham, Mass. 

CHARLES BARNARD CLAPP. 

Eldest son of Dr. Joel, whom he succ. in 1S73; was b. 
Sheldon, Vt., 23 Oct. 1817; educated at Gardiner, Me.; is 
a bookkeeper; resides in Portland, Me. 

He m. Sept. 1844, Mercy Porter, dau. of Edward Swan. Children : 
Agnes Howard, b. 10 Aug. 1846. 
Charles Porter, b. 22 Jan. 1848. 

JOSEPH CLARK. 

He was an original member of the Conn. Society, who after- 
ward became a member of the Mass. Society by right of resi- 
dence. He was b. 1755; d. Boston, i Aug. 1814; was app. 
I Dec. 1776, conductor of military stores belonging to Mass. ; 
resigned, 10 March, 1781. Had the rank of capt. 

JOSEPH HILL CLARK. 
Eldest son of Capt. Joseph, whom he succ. in 18 16. 



136 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

^ctcc ©lasts. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 28 March, 1754; d. Bridge- 
port, Vt., 1834; ensign in Nixon's (6th) reg. 1776; com. 
lieut. 1777; com. capt. 13 April, 1780. Selectman of Fra- 
mingham six years; removed to Bridgeport, Vt., in 1803. 

His descent from John^ of Watertown, 1639, was through Peter^ 
b. 27 May, 1639, d. 18 July, 1708 ; James ^ and wife Mary; James, 
Jr} (his father), b. 10 June, 1710, d. Jan. 1 79S, m. (second) 
Abigail Gleason, 28 May, 1740. 

Peter m. Jan. 1785, Polly Nixon, and had : Polly, 22 July, 1785, 
m. Harris of Bridgeport, Vt. ; Sophia, 25 Sept. 1786, d. unm. 1804 ; 
Nancy, 5 June, 1788, d. young; Amy, 23 March, 1790, m. Hem- 

menway, and d. young; Dana; Francis, bap. June, 1794, m. , 

Crowfoot, Vt. ; George, bap. July, 1796. m. in Shelburne, Vt. ; 
SuKEY, bap. Nov. 1798, d. 1802. 

REV. DANA CLAYES. 

Eldest son of Capt. Peter, whom he succ. in 1844; t>. Fra- 
mingham, Mass., 3 Oct. 1792; d. Wakefield, Mass., 30 Oct. 
1877; Middlebury Coll. 1815 ; Andovcr Sem. 1820; ordained, 
4 July, 1821; pastor Congregational Church in Meriden, 
N. H., 1821—37; home missionary in Vassalboro', Industry, 
Jefferson, etc., Me., 1841-51. 

He was b. in Attleborough, Mass., 14 Sept. 1748; d. Bos- 
ton, 17 April, 1830; H. U. 1766. The celebrated Master 
Marsh, of Old Braintree (now Ouincy), prepared him for 
college. After his graduation, he commenced the study of 
medicine, under Dr. Perkins, and was engaged in successful 
practice in his native place when the Revolutionary move- 
ment began, in which he was an early and prominent actor. 
He was secretary of the Bristol Co. Convention in 1774; and 




/^^-^^^^ 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I37 

as a member of the General Court convened in Oct. 1774, 
was the colleague of Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the 
Declaration of Independence.* Early in 1777 he was com- 
missioned lieut.-col. in Henry Jackson's (i6th) reg., in which 
he encountered some hard service, particularly at Springfield, 
N. J. ; at Monmouth ; and at Quaker Hill, R. I., where he 
led what may be called a forlorn hope, to delay with 20 men 
the progress of the Hessian cavalry. His activity, talent, 
and high military qualities attracted the attention of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, who, on 15 June, 1781, appointed him one 
of his aides, in which capacity he participated in the capture 
of Cornwallis. He remained in this position until 1784, hav- 
ing also been com. lieut.-col. commanding the 5th reg. (late 
Rufus Putnam's) 7 Jan. 1783, and a brig.-gen. by brevet. 

After the Commander-in-Chief took leave of the army. 
Col. Cobb passed considerable time at Mt. Vernon, as a 
member of Gen. Washington's military family. 

Returning to his home early in 1784, Col. Cobb resumed 
his profession, and was in that year app. to the bench of the 
Court of Common Pleas, where he continued 12 years. He 
was also maj.-gen. of the 5th div. Mass. militia in 1786-93. 

During the insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87, when 
the courts of justice were threatened by lawless and des- 
perate men, determined to impede the processes of the law 
for the collection of debts, Judge Cobb was called upon to 
act both in his judicial and his military capacity. To protect 
the meeting of the County Court at Taunton, in September, 
1786, the militia were ordered out. "The robe of the judge 
was thrown aside, the martial garb resumed. Court day 
arrived. Sounds ominous and threatening aro.se from the 

* In Col Wm. Henshaw's orderly book (July, 1775), reprinted in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Mass. Historical Society, vol. xv. p. 75, the name of David 
Cobb appears as 2d lieut. in Capt. Wm. Head's company of Col. John Thomas's 
regiment. In the list printed in 4 Force, vol ii. pp. 8:5, S26, Solomon Shaw's 
name is given instead of David Cobb's. 



138 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

mob ; but when the citizen-soldiers were seen steady at their 
posts, extended in double lines from the doors of the court- 
house, and when the resolute demeanor of the commander 
was observed, the tone of defiance sunk to that of remon- 
strance, and the General was entreated to withdraw his 
soldiers. 'Away with your whining!' was his determined 
and memorable reply. ' I will hold this court if I hold it in 
blood. I will sit as a Judge, or I will die as a General.' In 
an instant all was quieted ; the mob stole off secretly and 
silently, and the laws triumphed." * 

A somewhat similar scene was enacted in October of the 
same year, upon the opening of the session of the Supreme 
Court. " On one side of the village [Taunton] was posted 
a large body of armed insurgents : on the other, the sup- 
porters of government, the defenders of the laws. The can- 
non were planted, the matches were lighted and waving. 
Had the government selected for their commander one who 
was either rash or timid, that peaceful village might have 
witnessed transactions equal in atrocity to the most horrible 
of the French Revolution. The responsibility was great, 
but the man was equal to the emergency. He drew a line 
with his sword on the ground, and said to the rebel leader, 
' Pass that line and I fire ! The blood be upon your own 
head ! ' Again the laws triumphed : the court sat in peace, 
the insurgents dispersed ; and from that day to this, in that 
county, not an arm has been raised to resist the civil 
authority." f 

Elected in May, 1789, sole representative of Taunton to 
the General Court, he was at once chosen Speaker, retaining 
that position until 1793, when he became a member of the 

* From the address of Hon. Francis Baylies, on the Life and Character of 
Gen. David Cobb, July 2, 1830. 

t Gen. Cobb's report to Gov. Bowdoin concerning the riotous demonstration 
in Oct. 17S6, is printed in the Collections of the Old Colony Historical Societj', 
No. 4, pp. 83-S5. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 139 

Third Congress. In 1795 he settled with his family in Maine, 
as agent of the "Bingham Purchase; " and in 1799 was ap- 
pointed agent of the proprietors of Gouldsboro', Me. 

In 1802 he was elected to the Senate from the eastern dis- 
trict, and was immediately chosen President of that body, a 
post he held for three years. . He was in 1808 elected to the 
Council; was Lieut.-Gov. of Mass. in 1809; was one of the 
Board of Military Defence during the war of 18 12; Chief- 
Justice C. C. P. for Hancock Co. in 1803-9; and maj.-gen. 
of the loth div. of the State militia in 18 13. He took up 
his final residence in Taunton in 1820. He received the 
honorary degree of Master of Arts from New Jersey College 
in 1783, and from Brown University in 1790; was a member 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the 
Mass. Medical Society, and was VicE-President of the 
Mass. Society of the Cincinnati in 1810. 

Gen. Cobb was the parent of the flourishing academy at 
Taunton ; and whenever any public good was to be effected, 
was active and efficient, contributing from his own resources 
to the full extent of his means. As a physician, he was sa- 
gacious, learned, and eminently successful. As a soldier, 
he was fearless and intrepid, calm and collected in danger, 
rapid and decisive in judgment, and prompt in execution. 
To the courts he brought a competent knowledge of the 
law. Although he was not a lawyer, his clear perceptions 
and strong sense enabled him to detect sophistry, and to 
remove the impediments with which artifice and legal inge- 
nuity too often contrive to embarrass the progress of justice. 
A Federalist in politics, he was distinguished for his love of 
order and his attachment to the Constitution. As the pre- 
siding officer of a public body, he was unrivalled. Graceful 
and dignified in his deportment, he despatched the public 
business with ease and facility, and won by his impartial per- 
formance of the duties of the chair the praise even of his 



140 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

adversaries. His manners and disposition were pleasing ; 
his wit and humor, his fund of anecdote, and above all his 
powers of conversation, his vivacity, and flow of language, 
made him the delight of his friends, and a most acceptable 
guest at the social board. 

Hon. Joseph Williamson, of Belfast, Me., thus describes 
the General's appearance and manners: "In stature he v^^as 
large, and had a full face and over-awing eye. He was hasty 
in temper, and expressed himself with much energy and a 
most commanding voice. I have heard him order a lawyer 
to silence, and to his seat, with a power of voice and feeling 
that was almost overwhelming. On a certain occasion, sup- 
posing that an attorney at the bar was guilty of a fraudulent 
act, he exclaimed with great force, while on the bench, ' A 
dishonest lawyer ! he is worse than the devil, for he violates 
personal confidence and a sacred oath ! ' His costume was 
that of the Revolution. When he attended court, he wore a 
tri-cocked hat, broad-backed coat, a single-breasted jacket 
with pocket-flaps, breeches with bands and buckled at the 
knee, and high white top-boots. He walked with a measured 
gait, his military air having become second nature." 

His descent from AusUn ' or Augustine'^ Cobb was through Mor- 
gan^ b. 29 Dec. 1673, d. 30 Sept. 1755, m. 22 May, 1735, Flsther 
Hodges; Thomas^ (his father), who m. Lydia, eldest dau. of James 
Leonard of Taunton. Col. David m. in i 766, Eleanor Bradish, and 
had — 

Eleanor, 23 March, 1767, d. 30 Oct. 1842, m. James Hodges. 
Betsey, 5 June, 1768, d. April, 1830, m. P^benezer Smith. 
Thomas, 29 Jan. 1772, d. Oct. 1844, m. Abby Hall. 
WiLLWM Gray, 10 Feb. i 773, unm., killed, 4 Nov. 1791, in battle 

with the Indians, being an ensign under Gen. St. Clair. 
Eunice, 17 Nov. 1774, d. 6 June, 1826, m. 1792, Hon. S. S. 

Wilde, and had nine children. 
Mary, 26 July, 1776, d. 17 Oct. 1S51. m. Col. John Black of 
Ellsworth, Me. 



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David, 3 April, 1778, unm., killed by Indians on N. W. Coast, 24 

Oct. 1794. 
Sally, 15 Jan. 1780, d. se. ab. 17. 
Ebenezer Bradish, 30 Oct. 1781, d. bef. 1840. 
Henry Jackson, 18 Dec. 1784, d. unm. July, 1848. 
Geo. Washington, 14 Jan. 1790, m. Abby Crocker, dau. of Hon. 

Samuel of Taunton. After d. of bro. David in 1794, G. W. 

prefixed David to his name; d. 27 Feb. 1832. His children 

were : George Thomas ; Samuel Crocker, m. 1 848, Aurelia L. 

Beattie ; Elizabeth Baylies, m. Baylies Sanford of Boston ; 

Sarah Crocker, m. Curtis Guild of Boston. 



SAMUEL CROCKER COBB. 

Son of David G. W., and grandson of Gen. David, wliom 
he succ. in 1856; was b. in Taunton, 22 May, 1826. He was 
fitted for college at the Bristol Academy in Taunton; but cir- 
cumstances led to a change in the course of life which had 
been originally marked out for him, and at the early age of 
sixteen he entered a foreign shipping-house in Boston. As 
supercargo he went on several voyages to distant ports, and 
acquired a thorough knowledge of the trade relations between 
different parts of the world. At a later day he established a 
house of his own, in which he successfully carried on the 
same business for over thirty years. He served as a member 
of the Roxbury Board of Aldermen in 1861 and 1862; and 
on the annexation of Ro.xbury to Boston, in 1867, he was 
chosen by unanimous vote as the first representative from 
that section of the city to the higher branch of the City Coun- 
cil. After serving one term he declined a re-election. From 
1869 to the close of 1873 he was a member of the city Board 
of Directors for Public Institutions, and introduced many eco- 
nomical reforms in the management of that department of 
the local government. In Dec. 1873, lit.' was chosen Mayor 
of Boston by a nearly unanimous vote. " Although not 



142 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

specially identified with any political party, his sympathies 
after the dissolution of the Whig party to which he originally 
belonged, were generally with the Democratic party on 
national questions. He was a firm believer, however, in a 
non-partisan administration of local affairs; and so well did 
he act up to his convictions in that matter, that the citizens 
elected him for three successive terms, — the last time against 
the united opposition of the two leading political parties. 
During these three years (1874-76) a great many important 
measures were acted upon." * 

In accordance with his recommendation an act was passed 
by the Legislature in 1S75, authorizing the appointment of 
park commissioners, with authority to take lands, lay out 
public parks, and make rules for their government. The men 
whom Mayor Cobb selected for the service were not only 
highly competent, but were willing to serve without pay. He 
also took the initiative in devising a plan for improving the 
drainage of the city, by which some thirteen miles of inter- 
secting sewers were built, pumping-works established at Old 
Harbor Point, and an outlet given to deep water through a 
tunnel under Dorchester Bay. In view of the great expendi- 
tures involved in the enlargement of the water-works, he 
urged the City Council to place the Water Department under 
the charge of a paid commission ; and an act was accordingly 
passed authorizing him to appoint such a commission. 
Among other important measures which received Mr. Cobb's 
support during his administration of the Mayor's office were 
those providing for the appointment of registrars of voters, 
and inspectors of elections, and the limitation of municipal 
indebtedness. He took the opportunity afforded by the 
adoption of the last-named measure to urge upon the City 
Council the policy of raising by taxation, annually, a suffi- 

* Memorial History of Boston, vol. iii. p. 2S4. 



CINCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. 1 43 

cient amount of money to pay for all expenses incurred by the 
city, except for the enlargement of the water-works ; it was 
known and highly applauded as the " Pay as you go " policy. 

" Perhaps the most notable event of Mr. Cobb's adminis- 
tration, certainly the one which possesses the greatest histori- 
cal interest, was the celebration of the one hundredth anni- 
versary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. On the evening of 
June 16, 1875, there was a very remarkable meeting in Music 
Hall. Many of the men who had taken a leading part in the 
war of the Rebellion — rebel and patriot, the soldier of the 
Union and the soldier of the Confederacy — met for the first 
time in peace, and with a common object, — the commemora- 
tion of the most important of the series of events which re- 
sulted in the creation of an independent nation. The Mayor's 
address of welcome was admirably adapted to the spirit of 
the meeting, and met with a very cordial response from the 
city's guests. On the following day there was a great pro- 
cession, composed of various military and civic bodies, and 
an oration on the site of the historic battle-ground by Charles 
Devens, Jr., a justice of the Supreme Court of the Common- 
wealth." * 

After his retirement from the Mayor's office Mr. Cobb was 
chosen President of the National Revere Bank; but re- 
signed in March, 1878, when he was chosen Actuary of the 
Mass. Hospital Life Insurance Co., to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of Hon. George Tyler Bigelow, formerly Chief- 
Justice of the Supreme Court. That position he now holds. 
During the past 25 years he has held many other positions of 
trust and responsibility, connected with the business, philan- 
thropic, and charitable institutions of the city and the State, 
and his name has been connected with every movement to 
promote good government or to increase the spiritual and 
material prosperity of the people. 

* Memorial History of Boston, vol. iii. p. 2S7. 



144 lilOGRAPHlCAL NOTICES OF THE 

In 1865 he was chosen SECRETARY of this SOCIETV, to fill 
the vacancy caused by the promotion of Col. Sever to the 
Vice-Presidency; in 1871 he was chosen Vice-President in 
place of Admiral Thatcher, promoted to be President; and in 
1880 he was chosen President in place of Admiral Thatcher, 
deceased. Of his untiring interest in the beneficent work of 
the Society, it is unnecessary to say anything here. 

He m. 1848, Aurelia L., dau. of William Beattie, Esq., of Rock- 
land, Me. No children. 



JTljomas CtojjstocII. 

He was b. Haverhill, Mass., 4 Aug. 1746; d. Gilmanton, 
N. H., 3 Sept. 1810. His father, Nathaniel, had 19 children, 
eight of whom served in the war of the Revolution, their 
united services amounting to forty years and some months. 
Thomas was captain of the company raised at Haverhill, 
19 April, 1775. He started for the scene of hostilities on 
that day, leaving unburied his child Joseph, who had died 
three days before. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill and 
the siege of Boston, serving in S. Gerrish's (afterward L. 
Baldwin's) reg. On 21 Feb. 1777, he was com. major in 
Vose's (ist) reg., and served in that capacity until the end of 
the war. He then settled in Gilmanton, N. H., where he held 
a number of town offices; from 1784 to 1810 he was Chief- 
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas 

His descent from John Coi^swcll^ (b. 1592, d. 29 Nov. 1669), 
of Westbnry Leigh, Wilts, Eng., who m. 10 Sept. 161 5, Elizabeth, 
dau. of Rev. Wm. Thompson, and emigrated to Ipswich in 1635, 
was through William^ b. 161 9, d. 15 Dec. 1700, who m. 1649, Su- 
sanna, dau. of Adam Hawkes ; /<;/!«,'' b. 12 May, 1665, d. 1710, 
who m. Hannah, dau. of Dea. Wm. Goodhue, Jr. ; Nathaniel* b. 19 
Jan. 1707, d. 23 March, 1783, who m. 31 Jan. 1740, Judith, dau. of 
Joseph Badger. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 45 

Thomas m. 26 Feb. 1770, Ruth, dau. of Gen. Joseph Badger, and 
had — 

Nathaniel, b. 19 Jan. 1773, d. Red River, La. or Ark., Aug. 

1813; Dartm. Coll. 1794. 
Judith, who m. Hon. Nathaniel Upham of Rochester (Judith 

Almira, dau. b. 26 March, 1811, m. 20 June, 1831, Hon. 

James Bell). 
Thomas, killed in the war of 1S12, at Chateauguay, N. Y., 26 Oct. 

1813. 
William, b. i Nov. 1784, capt. in war of 181 2. 
Fr-Wcis, b. 24 April, 1787, Dartm. Coll. 181 1, a lieut. in the 

army, and d. Plattsburg, N. Y., 8 Dec. 181 2. 
Pearson, b. 14 Feb. 1790. 
Frederick, b. 23 March, 1792. 
Alfred, b. 27 June, 1795. 

CHARLES UPHAM BELL. 

Son of James and Judith Almira (Upham) Bell, and great- 
grandson of Capt. Thomas Cogswell, whom he succ. in 1876; 
was b. Exeter, N. H., 26 Feb. 1843 ; grad. Bowdoin Coll. 1863. 
He served in the war of the Rebellion as a private in Co. C, 
42d Mass. Vols. ; was president of the Common Council of 
Lawrence in 1881, and presidential elector 8th Dist. Mass., in 
1888. He is one of the Overseers of Bowdoin Coll., a trustee 
of the Brewster Free Academy, and a trustee of the Essex Sav- 
ings Bank. He has held other positions of trust and responsi- 
bility ; and is author of an inde.K to Mass. Reports. 

He m. 21 Nov. 1872, Helen Maria, dau. of Joseph P. Pitman of 
Laconia, N. H. She d. 28 March, 1883. Children — 

Alice Lyon, b. 21 Oct. 1873. 

Mary White, b. 25 July, 1875. 

Joseph Pitman, b. 10 Jan. 1877. 

Helen Pitman, b. 27 June, 1879. 

He m. (second), 10 April, 1884, Elizabeth Woodbury Pitman, 
sister of his first wife. 



146 BIUGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THK 

The younger bro. of Maj. Thomas; was b. Haverhill, 
Mass., 2 Oct. 1752; d. Dover, N. H., 28 Jan. 1826. He was 
ensign in his brother's company in May, 1775, and served at 
the battle of Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston. In 1776 
he was com. as lieut. in L. Baldwin's reg. ; and on i Jan. 1777, 
he was com. capt. in Wesson's (9th) reg. He was in the bat- 
tles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth, and served until 
the end of the war. While in the army in New Jersey he had 
charge of some Hessian prisoners, two of whom escaping to 
the river, he rushed in and recaptured them both. At the 
battle of Monmouth he displayed such energy and bravery 
that Gen. Washington, who was an eyewitness of his deeds, 
pointed him out by a feather in his cap, and promoted him on 
the spot. After the war he settled in Dover, N. H., and served 
in both branches of the N. H. Legislature. He became a 
member of the N. H. Society of the Cincinnati by right of 
residence, and was Vice-President from 1803 till 1809, 
and President from 1809 till 1823. 

He m. 20 Nov. 1785, Lydia (Baker), widow of Capt. S. Wal- 
lingford, and had — 

SoPHM, 20 July, 1786, m. J. M. Currier of Dover, d. i8 Sept. 
181 7, leaving several children. 

JOSEPH BADGER UPHAM. 

He was the great-grandson of Amos Cogswell, whom he 
succ. in 1878; b. Portsmouth, N. H., 25 Dec. 1840; d. there 
14 Aug. 1889. He grad. Bowdoin Coll. 1861, and entered the 
U. S. Navy as 3d asst. engineer, 17 Nov. 1862. He was pro- 
moted to be passed asst. engineer, i Jan. 1868; and placed 
on the retired list of the navy, 27 Dec. 1875, on account of ill 
health caused by service in the war of the Rebellion. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I47 

Samutl ©oflstocU. 

A relative of Amos and Thomas; was of Windham, Ct., 
and died before 181 2 ; com. lieut. in H. Jackson's ( i6th) reg. 
I July, 1777; dep. judge advocate in Brooks's (7th) in 1783. 

He was b. Boston, 1757, d. Pawtucket, R. I., 29 Aug. 1833. 
Com. 2d lieut. in H. Jackson's (i6th} reg. I Feb. 1777; ad- 
jutant, 27 Oct. 1778-9 April, 1779; com. ist lieut. i March, 
1779; reg. quartermaster, i Jan. 1782 -July, 1784; distin- 
guished at Quaker Hill, R. I., in Aug. 1778, and at Springfield, 
N. J., in June, 1780; said to be a brave officer and a good 
disciplinarian. He m. in June, 1789, Polly Aborn of Paw- 
tucket, and removed to R. I. in 1797. His dau. MarY ANN 
Howe was living in Dec. 185 i. 

Z3at)iti Qtools^. 

He was b. Weston, Mass., 12 March, 1751; d. Portland, 
Me., 27 Oct. 1823. Before the Revolution he was a butcher 
in Boston, and a member of Paddock's Artillery Co. ; com. 1st 
lieut. Knox's artillery, i Jan. 1776; capt. in Crane's artillery, 
14 March, 1778. He used to relate that the night before the 
battle of Monmouth he slept on a gun-carriage, and dreamed 
that his lieutenant was wounded precisely as he himself was 
in the battle that ensued. 

HORATIO GATES COOK. 

Only son of Capt. David, whom he succ. in 1824; b. 1784; 
d. Portland, Me., 20 Jan. 1863. 

ISjcfeicl Qtoopet. 

OfDanvers; was an ensign in Hutchinson's reg. in 1775- 
76; lieut. in Putnam's (5th) reg. 1777-82; com. capt. in 



148 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Sprout's (2d) reg. 7 Jan. 1783; removed to Ohio in 1788; 
and was living at VVarrenton, O., in 1807. 

Samuel CEooiJer. 

He was b. Boston, 1760; d. near Alexandria, Va., 19 Aug. 
1840; com. 2d lieut. Crane's artillery, i Feb. 1777; quarter- 
master, 14 May, 1778; lieut. and adjutant, 1783. He was 
the official inspector of pot and pearl ashes in N. Y. City and 
County, 1808-30. Transferred to N. Y. Society in 1804. 

His son Samuel, b. 1798, grad. at West Point, 1S15 ; served 
in the Mexican war as asst. adj. -gen.; became adj. -gen. U. S. 
army, 1852 ; resigned his commission in March, 1861, and 
was appointed by Jefferson Davis adj. -gen. Confed. army. He 
organized the Confed. forces, and had the highest rank in the 
service. He was captured with Davis in 1865, was paroled, 
and died in 1876 at his home, near Alexandria, Va. 

GEORGE HENRY COOPER. 

Grandson of Lieut. Samuel, whom he succ. in 1889; was b. 
Fort Hamilton, N. Y. harbor, 29 July, 1822. He was appointed 
midshipman in the U. S. navy, 11 Aug. 1837, ^"^1 during that 
year was attached to the fleet on the coast of Florida, which 
was co-operating with the army against the Seminole Indians. 
From 1838 till 1842 he was attached to the frigate " Constitu- 
tion " on the Pacific. He was promoted to be passed mid- 
shipman in June, 1843, and served on the " Flirt" during the 
Mexican war. From 1847 till 1851 he was attached to the 
Yard at Norfolk; and during the five years following he 
served on the "Susquehanna" in the East India squadron. 
He was com. lieut. 8 May, 1851, and on his return from 
the East Indies was again assigned to duty at Norfolk. 
Afterward he served on the frigate " Roanoke," in the home 
squadron, and later at the Portsmouth Yard. In July, 1862, 
he was appoint^'d commander, and given the supply-vessel 



CINCINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 49 

" Massachusetts," of the Atlantic squadron. In 1863 he 
took command of the " Mercedita," in the South Atlantic 
blockading squadron. For some weeks he commanded the 
monitor " Sangamon," employed on picket-duty off Charles- 
ton harbor, and in shelling Fort Sumter and the batteries on 
Sullivan's Island. Later he was stationed at Stone Inlet, S. C, 
as senior naval officer, co-operating with the army. From 
1863 till 1867 he commanded successively the " Sonoma," the 
" Glaucus," and the " Winooski." He was com. capt. in Dec. 
1867, and stationed at the Norfolk Yard. Afterward he was 
on sea duty for some time in command of the frigate " Colo- 
rado." During 1872-73 he was commandant at the Norfolk 
Yard. In June, 1874, he was appointed commodore, and as- 
signed to the command of the Yard at Pensacola. From 
1878 till 1880 he was president of the Board of Inspection; 
and later commandant of the Brooklyn Yard. In 1881 he 
was com. Rear Admiral, and given command of the North 
Atlantic station. In 1884, being then 62 years of age, he 
was, in accordance with the Act of Congress, placed on the 
retired list. 

He m. II Dec. 1844, Caroline Augusta, dau. of Guy Carleton 
Wheeler. Children — 

Imogen P.^ge, b. 28 Sept. 1845. 
Mason Sinclair, b. 10 July, 1847. 
George Henry, b. 30 July, 1851. 
Charles Morril, b. i Nov. 1856. 
William Hamilton, b. 28 Aug. 1861. 

ANDREW CRAIGIE. 

He was the son of Andrew and Elizabeth Craigie ; b. Bos- 
ton, 7 June, 1743; d. Cambridge, Mass., 19 Sept. 1819; 
educated at the Boston Latin School ; appointed Apothe- 
cary-General in the Continental service, i Jan. 1777, on 
Gen. Washington's recommendation, under the resolution of 



150 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Congress reorganizing the Medical Department. After faith- 
ful service, most of the time in Philadelphia, he was honor- 
ably discharged, 3 Nov. 1783. He then settled at Cambridge, 
having purchased the Vassall estate, — well known as Wash- 
ington's Headquarters, and, later, as the home of Henry 
W. Longfellow, — for which he paid :£3,7SO, a large sum for 
those days. He was interested in the construction of the 
bridge which still bears his name, from West Boston to Lech- 
mere's Point, East Cambridge. He was an original member 
of the N. Y. Society, but became a member of the Mass. 
Society by right of residence. 

ANDREW FOSTER. 

Eldest son of Andrew Foster, and grand-nephew of Gen. 
Andrew Craigie, whom he succ. in 1875 ; was b. Boston, 5 Jan. 
1815; d. about 1885; H. U. 1833; adm. Suffolk Bar, 1836. 
He resided in New York City during the latter part of his 
life. 

Soijn (ifranr. 

Col. Crane, commander of the Mass. reg. of artillery 
in the continental service during the Revolutionary war, 
was b. Braintree, Mass., 7 Dec. 1744, and d. at Whiting, Me., 
21 Aug. 1805. He was one of the famous "Tea Party" in 
Dec. 1773, and came near being killed on that occasion by 
the falling of a chest of tea on his head. He was a member 
of Adino Paddock's Artillery Co., and took an active part in 
all the patriotic movements of the day. He followed the 
trade of a house-carpenter; but as that branch of industry 
had, with others, been paralyzed by the " Boston Port Bill," 
which went into operation, i June, 1774, Crane with his 
partner, Ebenezer Stevens, went to Providence, R. L Here, 
upon receiving the news of the battle of Bunker Hill, they 
raised two companies of artillery, with which they marched 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I5I 

to Roxbury, and joined Gridley's reg., Crane receiving the 
com. of major, and Stevens that of captain, in the R. I. 
" Train." 

Crane was constitutionally bold and daring, as well as ambi- 
tious of military glory ; and possessing a remarkably keen 
vision, was exceedingly skilful as an artillerist, — a talent he 
had frequent opportunities to display during the siege of 
Boston. On 8 July, 17751 a little after two o'clock in the 
morning, Majors Tupper and Crane, with a number of volun- 
teers, attacked the British advanced guard at Brown's House, 
on Boston Neck, routed them, and burned two houses. This 
was regarded as a very " brave action," and " well performed." 
During the siege he commanded a breastwork on Boston 
Neck. 

Com. maj. in Knox's art. reg. i Jan. 1776, he accompanied 
the army to New York ; and while cannonading a British 
frigate which was running past his batteries at Corlaer's 
Hook, 14 Sept., was severely wounded by a cannon-ball 
which carried off a part of his foot, disabling him for several 
months. Com. col. i Jan. 1777, he raised a reg. in Mass., 
officered chiefly of those who had been trained under Pad- 
dock, Gridley, and Knox; a Corps not exceeded in discipline, 
valor, and usefulness by any in the service. It was principally 
employed with the main army, and near the person of the 
Commander-in-Chief, and was relied on as an essential auxil- 
iary in the most important battles. No military organization 
in that army participated in so many eventful scenes, or won 
more laurels. Besides the actions of the main army, portions 
of it were with .Sullivan in the R. I. campaign, with Gates at 
Saratoga, and in the heroic defence of Red Bank on the 
Delaware. 

He was brcvetted a brig.-gen. 30 Sept. 1783, and after the 
peace formed a partnership with Maj. Lemuel Trescott, in the 
lumber business, at Passamaquodd}', Me., in which they were 



152 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

unsuccessful. The connection was dissolved, and he finally 
settled in Whiting, Washington Co., Me. 

" Col. Crane," says Gen. Burbeck, " possessed great reso- 
lution, energy, and courage, and was at the same time per- 
fectly cool and gentlemanly in danger ; in short, he was Gen. 
Knox's factotum in cases of emergency." Though entitled 
to a pension on account of his wound, which had to some.ex- 
tent disabled him, he was too high-spirited to accept such 
assistance ; but ill health and poverty finally overcame his 
scruples, and just previous to his death he made his 
application. 

His descent from Hcniy'^ Crane of Dorchester, b. 1624, was 
through Ebenezer'^ of Milton, b. 10 Aug. 1665, who was in the Can- 
ada Expedition of 1690, and Mary Tolman ; Abijah^ (his father), 
who m. 3 March, 1 733, Sarah Field, who d. 3 Sept. 1 742, and (second) 
7 Jan. 1 743, Sarah Beverley. Their children were Col. John, .^bijah, 
and Miriam. 

Col. Crane m. in 1767 Miss Wheeler, and had — 

John, 1768, d. 1835. 

Abijah. 

Isaac. 

Alice, 1770, d. 1841, m. William Allan. Their only son, George 
W., left an only son, George Hayward, b. Boston, 1832. 

Mehitable, 1779, d. 1846, m. John .'Mien. 

CiURLOTTE, 1782, d. 1840, m. Horatio Gates .\llen. 

Joljn Crane. 

Of Hanover, N. H. ; surgeon of Vose's (ist), afterward of 
C.Smith's (6th) reg. (1781-83); d. 1805. 

JOHN HUNTINGTON CRANE. 

Only son of Surgeon John Crane, whom he succ. in 1809; 
b. Hanover, N. H., 1780; d Louisville, Ky., 26 Sept. 1822; 
Dartmouth Coll. 1799. He read law, began practice in Straf- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 53 

ford, Vt., removed to Boston, and afterward to Sandusky, O., 
and finally to Louisville, Ky. He never married. 

Soscpl) etrocfecc. 

He was son of Rev. Josiah, of Taunton; b. 24 Feb. 1749; 
d. [3 Nov. 1797; H. U. 1774; com. lieut. in Greaton's (3d) 
reg. i6Sept. 1778; resigned, 24 July, 1 781, having performed 
four years and nine months' service in the army. First 
Assist. Sec. of the Society, 1794-98. 

His descent from William'^ Crocker of Scituate in 1636, and wife 
Alice, was through ybj-M/e," b. Barnstable 19 Sept. 1647, d. 2 Feb. 
1698, who m. Melatiah, dau. of Gov. Thos. Hinckley, 22 Oct. 1668 ; 
Josiah^ b. 8 Feb. 1684, d. 10 Oct. 1721, who ni. 10 .April, 1718, 
Desire Thacher ; Rev. Josiah * of Taunton (his father), b. 30 Oct. 
I 719, d. 28 Aug. 1774, and Rebecca, dau. of Ebenezer .Allen. 

Joseph m. 15 .'\pril, 1779, Hannah, dau. of Rev. Samuel Mather 
of Boston, b. 27 June, 1752, d. 10 July, 1829. They had five sons 
and five daughters. 

SAMUEL M.ATHER CROCKER. 

Eldest son of Capt. Joseph, whom he succ. in 1804; b. 
10 May, 1783; d. Milford, Mass., 9 March, 1852; H. U. 1801. 
He practised law successively in Douglas, U.xbridge, Fitch- 
burg, and Milford, Mass. 

He m. Charlotte Coffin. They had — 
Samuel Mather, b. 11 Aug. 1812, d. 15 Dec. 1879. 
Joseph, b. 28 Nov. 1813, d. 13 Aug. 1885. 
Allen, b. 16 Nov. 181 5, d. 11 Jan. 1849. 
WiLLL'iM, b. 15 Aug. 1 81 8 (is living in Chicago). 
George, b. 21 July, 1820, d. 20 Dec. 1889. 
James, b. 18 March, 1822, d. 26 Feb. 1853. 

SAMUEL MATHER CROCKER. 

Eldest son of Samuel Mather, whom he succ. in 1855 ; was 
b. Douglas, Mass., 11 Aug. 1S12; d. Bcllingham, Mass., 15 



154 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Dec. 1879; m. 1834, Cemelia, dau. of Willard Wilcox. They 
had — 

Marcelus M., b. 5 Nov. 1834, d. 16 March, 1837. 

Charlotte, b. i Aug. 1836. 

Emily Sophia, b. 29 Jan. 1838, d. 17 June, 1844. 

Francis Allen, b. 21 March, 1840, d. 22 June, 1843. 

Willard, b. 27 June, 1842, d. 2 July, 1843. 

Elizabeth, b. 4 March, 1844. 

Clara Amelia, b. 22 Dec. 1845. 

Lewis Cass, b. 16 April, 1849. 

Joseph Willard, b. 7 March, 1852. 

Francis Herbert, b. 16 Dec. 1853. 

Albert Henry, b. i Dec. 1858, d. 4 Jan. 1883. 

LEWIS CASS CROCKER. 

Fourth son of the above-named Samuel Mather (whom he 
succ. in 1882), and great-grandson of Lieut. Joseph; was b. 
Milford, Mass., 16 April, 1849. He is a commercial trav- 
eller, and resides in Allston, Mass. 

He m. (first) 20 Nov. 1871, Maggie E., dau. of Wm Corcoran, by 
whom he had William F'rancis, b. 22 Nov. 1873, and Frederic 
Albert, b. 20 Jan. 1875, d. 6 May, 1882. 

He m. (second) i Nov. 1877, Carrie, dau. of John Smith, by whom 
he had Bessie May, b. 20 March, 1882 ; Ethel Francis, b. 17 Jan. 



jFlorcncc (Crotolcj?. 

Sergt. in John Johnston's Co., Knox's artillery, in Feb. 
1776; 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, i Jan. 1777; com. 1st 
lieut. I Oct. 1778. A certificate from Gen. Knox, dated 
West Point, 12 July, 1783, says of Lieut. Crowley: "In the 
discharge of his duty he has at all times approved him- 
self an attentive, brave, and intelligent officer." He was 
living in Boston in 1793. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 55 

He was b. Pembroke, Mass., 8 April, 1753; received a 
common school education, and learned the trade of a house- 
carpenter, which he was following near Boston when the Rev- 
olutionary war broke out. Com. a lieut. in Trescott's Co. of 
Brewer's reg. in July, 1775; ist lieut. same Co. in A. Whit- 
comb's (6th) reg. Jan. 1776; capt. in Paterson's, afterward 
Vose's (ist) reg. i Jan. 1777; in Rufus Putnam's reg. in 
1780; brigade major, i Dec. 1781 ; engaged in many bat- 
tles and skirmishes, and noted as a most successful partisan 
officer. In May, 1 780, while stationed at the outposts oi 
the so-called " neutral ground " between Kingsbridge and 
White Plains, N. Y., he surprised and captured a detachment 
of De Lancey's corps of Tories, and being pursued by Col. 
Simcoe's mounted rangers, repulsed the attacks of that of- 
ficer, and reached his post with all the prisoners. For his 
bravery and skill in this affair, he was highly complimented 
by the Commander-in-Chief After the war he removed 
from Boston to Marietta, O., where, soon after his arrival 
in Aug. 1788, he was com. by Gov. St. Clair as a capt., 
and in 1797 colonel of the 1st reg. of militia. One of 
tlie founders of the Belpre colony in 1789, and d. there in 
Aug. 1814. 

His descent from Matthnv^ Gushing oi Hingham, 1638, b. 1588, 
d. 30 Sept. 1660, and his wife Nazareth Pitcher, was through John^ 
b. 1627, who was an assistant in 1689-91, d. 1708, who m. in 1656, 
Sarah, dau. of Nicholas Jacob ; John, Jr. ,^ b. 28 April, 1662, d. 1737, 
Judge of the Sup. Court, who m. 20 May, 1687, Deborah Loring 
of Hull; Elijah,^ h. 2 March, 1698, who m. Elizabeth Barker in 
1724; Elijah, Jr!" (his father). 

Nathaniel m. in Nov. 1775, Elizabeth Heath, by whom he had 
six sons and six daughters : of these were Nathaniel, Henry, 
Varnum, Thomas, Sally, and Elizabeth, all of whom m. and settled 
in Ohio. 



156 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



STljotnas Ousting. 

Gen. Thomas Humphrey Gushing was b. Pembroke, Mass., 
in Dec. i/SS- He was a sergeant in his brother Nathaniel's 
company in 1776, and was in Arnold's naval battle on Lake 
Ghamplain; com. 2d lieut. in Paterson's (afterward Vose's), 
reg. 28 March, 1777; ist lieut. 12 Jan. 1778, and was taken 
prisoner, 14 May, 1781. App. capt. 2d U. S. inf. 4 March, 
1791, serving under Gen. St. Glair; major 1st sub. legion, 3 
March, 1793; inspector, 24 F"eb. 1797; adjutant and in- 
spector of the arm}', i April, 1802 ; col. 2d inf 7 Sept. 1805 ; 
adj. -gen. and brig. -gen. 2 July, 1812, and commanded at Sto- 
nington, Gt , when the attack of the British squadron under 
Admiral Hardy was repulsed in 1814; Gollector of the Port 
of New London from Jan. 181 5, until his death, 19 Oct. 1822. 
He fought a duel with Mr. Lewis, M.G. from Va., in which 
his life was saved by his watch, which was struck by his ad- 
versary's ball. An account of Gen. Gushing's trial by court- 
martial was published in 1812. 

]3rnjamtn Dana. 

He was b. Boston, 24 Feb. 1752; d. unm in that city, 3 
April, 1836. Lieut, in Wigglesworth's (13th) reg.; com. ist 
lieut. 24 Feb. 1778; in Sullivan's campaign in R L, and 
served through the war. After the army was disbanded, he 
went into business in Boston as a banker and financial agent, 
and won the respect and confidence of his contemporaries. 

His descent from Richard'^ Dana of (\imbridge, Mass., 1637, d. 2 
April, 1690, m. ab. 1648, to Anne Bullard, was through Benjamin,'^ 
b. 20 Feb. 1660, d. 13 Aug. 1738, m. 24 May, 1688, Mary Buck- 
minster; Benjamin,^ b. 28 April, 1689, lived in Brighton, d. 5 June, 
1 75 1, m. 23 July, 1724, Anna Francis; fohn* (his father), b. 10 
July, 1725, d. 26 Dec. 1793, m. in 1748, .\bigail Smith. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 57 



ISAAC DANA. 

Only surviving bro. of Lieut. Benjamin, whom he succ. in 
1837, was b. 9 Dec. 1768; d. Watertown, Mass., 12 July, 
185 1. He learned the carpenter's trade, and carried on the 
business of a builder. He m. Hannah Fisher, cousin of Hon. 
Fisher Ames. They had two sons and si.x daughters. 

BENJAMIN DANA. 

Eldest son of Isaac, whom he succ. in 1846; b. Newton, 
Mass., 16 June, 1804; d. Watertown, Mass., 13 April, 1866. 
He held various town offices and positions of trust during 
his forty years' residence in Watertown. He was one of 
the founders and a director of the Watertown Bank, and 
served for many years as adjutant and major of the 4th 
reg. M. V. M. 

He m. II April, 1829, Martha Stratton, dau. of Capt. Charles 
Stratton of Weston and Watertown, and had — 

BENJ.4MIN, b. 28 Feb. 1830. 

Charles Stratton, b. 21 April, 1834. 

Benjamin Dana was elected in 1876, to succeed his father. He 
resides in London, Eng. 

Josijua ZSanfortJ). 

Son of Joshua, who commanded a battalion at the battle 
of Bennington; was b. in Western (now Warren), Mass., 26 
Nov. 1759; d. Pittsfield, Mass., 30 Jan. 1837. 

Younsj Danforth, who was qualifying himself for college 
when the Revolutionary war began, entered his father's com- 
pany as its clerk at the age of 15, discharging at the same 
time the duties of surgeon's mate. He was made ensign in 
1776; lieut. and paymaster in 1778 ; 1st lieut. Sprout's (12th) 
reg. 28 July, 1780; and in 1783 was in .Sprout's (2d) reg. 



158 lilOGKAl'IIICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Present at the siege of Boston, 1775-76; surrender of Bur- 
goyne, 17 Oct. 1777; winter quarters at Valley Forge, 1777- 
78; battle of Monmouth, 28 June, 1778; Sullivan's R.I. 
campaign, 1778; and in 1781 commanded for some months 
a post on the Hudson near Tappan Bay, and was engaged 
in several skirmishes with the enemy. 

In May, 1784, he removed to Pittsfield and engaged in 
business with Col. Simon Larned. Aide-de-camp to Gen. 
Paterson, 1787; postmaster of Pittsfield from 1794 to his 
death ; several times a representative in the Legislature ; 
Associate Justice of the County Court of Sessions, 1807, and 
its Chief-Justice in 1808; U. S. Marshal for the i8th District, 
also Principal Assessor and Collector of the U. S. Revenue 
(app. by Mr. Madison) ; member of the Governor's Council 
in 1827-28; and also held many town offices. Capt. in Mc- 
Cobb's reg. U. S. vols. Nov. 1812; capt. 45th U. S. inf April, 
1814-June, 1815. 

By his first wife Salome, dau. of Hon. David Noble of Williams- 
town, m. 15 Jan. 1786, who d. 30 Jan. 1837, he had — 
Maria, 6 April, i 792. 
Henrietta, 20 Oct. i 793. 
Harriet D., 8 Dec. 1795. 
Joshua Noble. 

Amelia, 4 July, 1801, who m. Roberts. 

George Washington, a teacher ; ) Twins 

Samuel Adams, 5 May, 1804 ; d. 1866 ) 
Salome, 23 April, 1808. 
Frances E., 24 Nov. 18 10. 

REV. JOSHUA NOBLE DANFORTH, D D. 

Eldest son of Joshua, whom he succ. in 1843 ; b. Pittsfield, 
Mass., I April, 1798; d. Newcastle, Del., 14 Nov. 1861 ; 
Williams Coll. 1818; D.D. of Delaware Coll. 1855. He 
studied theology at Princeton ; was licensed by the Presby- 
tery of New Brunswick ; was settled successively at New- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 59 

castle, Del. (1825-28), Washington, D. C. (1828-33), Lee, 
Mass. (1834-38); and Alexandria, Va. (Second Church); 
and at the time of his death was agent of the Colonization 
Society, and had been prominent in the Temperance Re- 
form. He left only one son, who was insane. 

Japlj^t]) Bantrls. 

Of Holliston; b. 1738; d. ab. 1806. Lieut, in Joseph 
Read's (i3thj reg. at siege of Boston; com. capt. in Nixon's 
(6th) reg. 27 March, 1777, and served to the end of the war. 

Son of Samuel and Experience (Adams) Daniels, and (probably) 
grandson of Robert of Medfield, who settled in Sherborn prior to 
1715, and who was (probably) grandson of Robert of Cambridge. 

Japheth m. Melaliah , who was living in 181 2, se. 72, and 

had — 

Cynthia, 17 May, 1765. 

OsiiMUS, 28 Dec. 1768. 

AftiARrAH, 28 Nov. 1770, m. 1794 Olive Ryder, and resided at 
Palmyra, Portage Co., O. 

Sabra, 10 Sept. 1772. 

Japheth, 14 Aug. 1777, m. Betsey Rider, 1800. 

Melatuh, 2 Nov. 1779. 

Samuel Batlis- 

Was of York, Me., where he d. early in 1807. Capt. in 
Scamman's reg. in May, 1775; in Prescott's reg. in 1776; in 
Bailey's (2d) reg. i Jan. 1777; com. major in Brooks's (7th) 
reg. I Nov. 1778; afterward in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. 

He left a widow Mary, and a son Reuben, who d. in 1808, 
leaving a widow and three young children. 

Wbtntitv BaDis. 

Ebenezer Davis (or Davies), the eldest son of William and 
Jane (Stewart) Davis, was born in Newton, N. H. in 1754. 
While he was still a bov, his father removed to Mass. 



l6o BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

and died, lea\ing a widow and three sons, — Ebenczer, 
William, and Charles. When the Revolutionary war began, 
Ebenezer joined a company of forty-eight minute-men of 
Bradford, under the command of Capt. Nathaniel Gage, 
and promptly responded, 19 April, 1775, to the Lexing- 
ton alarm. After seven days of service the company was 
dismissed ; but the members immediately joined Col. 
James Frye's Essex Co. reg. of eight months' men, and 
marched to Cambridge. At Bunker Hill the company oc- 
cupied an exposed position, but sustained no loss. It is said 
to have been one of the most effective companies in the 
battle, having been drilled by an English deserter. When 
the regiment's term of service expired, young Davis seems 
to have enlisted as a sergeant, i Jan. 1776, under Capt. 
Joshua Read, in the ist Rhode Island reg.. Col. Varnum. 
This regiment, after the evacuation of Boston, marched to 
N. Y., fought at Long Island, Harlem Heights, and White 
Plains; served under Gen. Lee until his capture in N. J.; 
then rejoined Gen. Washington, and at his request patri- 
otically remained in the service till i Feb. 1777, a month 
after their term expired. They were actively engaged at 
Princeton, and at the Assanpink Creek, where it is said the 
young sergeant distinguished himself by gallant conduct. 

Davis enlisted, 25 March, 1777, under Capt. Samuel Carr, 
in the 9th Mass. reg., Col. James Wesson, and served as a 
sergeant until 2 March, 1779, when he was promoted to the 
rank of ensign. This regiment served under Gen. Gates 
in the campaign against Burgoyne ; took an active part in 
the battles of Bemis's Heights ; wintered at Valley Forge ; 
and was at the battle of Monmouth, where its colonel was 
badly wounded. 

In the autumn of 1781 Ensign Davis was assistant com- 
missary of issues to Gen. Muhlenberg's (ist) brigade of La- 
fayette's Light Infantry in the Yorktown campaign. In 1782 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. l6l 

he was ensign in Col. Micliael Jackson's (8th) reg. ; and by 
the report of a board appointed, 3 Sept. 1781, to arrange the 
rank of the subaltern officers of the Mass. line, he was eighth 
on the list of ensigns. He was promoted, 5 Nov. 1782, to 
the rank of lieut. in Capt. John Hobby's company of the 
3d Mass. reg., Col. Greaton, his promotion dating from 
15 March; and in 1783 he was appointed quartermaster 
to the 3d Mass. brigade, which position he held at the 
close of the war. On leaving the army, Lieut. Davis re- 
turned to Bradford, and soon afterward removed to Fal- 
mouth Neck (now Portland, Me.), where he passed the 
remainder of his life. He retained to the last his fondness 
for a military career, and was highly recommended for a 
colonel's commission in the new United States army in 1792. 
He even thought of going to France, during the first enthu- 
siasm of the French Revolution, to offer his services to the 
patriots. He was commissioned, 5 Feb, 1787, capt. in the 6th 
div. of the Mass. militia. In 1798, when Congress voted to 
raise an army often thousand men, in anticipation of war with 
France, although already suffering from the lingering disease 
that ended his life, he wrote to his friend. Gen. Wm. Shepard, 
then a member of Congress, expressing his wish to re-enter 
the service, and asking his influence with the President to 
procure him a suitable position. The people of Portland 
appointed him, 1 1 June of the same year, on a committee 
to superintend the erection of necessary defences for the 
town. 

He joined the Portland Lodge of P'ree Masons, 6 Jan. 1785, 
was elected Junior Warden the same day, and in June was 
chosen Master, retaining the office till 1795. 

He died, after a tedious illness of two years, 14 Nov, 1799, 
at the age of 4-S years. Capt. Davis is described as a noble- 
looking man, of fine manners and soldierly bearing, wear- 
ing the old-fashioned cocked hat and small-clothes. 



l62 BIUGRAPHICAL NOTICES OK THE 

The following graphic picture of him is contained in a 
letter written, 24 July, 1834, by his old friend and comrade. 
Gen. Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire, to the 
Hon. Charles S. Daveis: — 

" While I write, the recollection of your gallant father is con- 
stantly recurring to me. As he died when you were young, and few 
individuals now living can speak of him to you from a long and inti- 
mate acquaintance in early life, I will avail myself of this opportunity 
to give you some of my own recollections. Our acquaintance com- 
menced in the spring [of] 1777, at Bemus [Bemis's] Heights, near 
the ground where the battles were afterward fought. He could not 
at that time, I think, have been more than twenty years of age, and 
his appearance is at this moment fresh in my recollection. His face 
was fine, indicative of great moral firmness ; and when interested 
upon any subject, his countenance was lit up with a high degree of 
animation. His hair was black, but, as was the custom of that day, 
always powdered when on duty ; eyes dark and full of expression. 
He was about six feet and one inch in height, his figure perfectly 
symmetrical, and his motions those of an elegant and accomplished 
soldier. This description would seem unnecessarily particular to an 
indifferent individual, but I am writing to a son, to whom minute 
facts will not be without interest. Your father, like myself, entered 
the service young. In 1777 we were sergeants in the same brigade, 
— he in Col. Wesson's, and myself in Col. Jackson's regiment. The 
regiments encamped and served side by side, and we were intimate 
from that period to the close of the war. We received our promo- 
tions about the same time, and generally served in the same grade. 
Your father was deservedly beloved by all who were so fortunate as 
to make his acquaintance. In habits he was remarkably correct ; 
and every duty devolved upon him, whether in the camp or in the 
field, was sure to be performed with promptness and alacrity. In a 
word, it was conceded by all, that your father, in mind and in heart 
as in person, combined what a gallant oflScer and finished gendeman 
should be." 

William Davis, father of Ebenezer, was of Newton, N. H. 
He 'was m. 24 Dec. 1751, at Kingston, N. H., to Jane, youngest 
dau. of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Johnson) Stewart of Rowley, and 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 63 

probably granddaughter of Duncan Stewart, an early settler and 
ship-builder of Newbury. They had three sons; namely, (i) Eben- 
ezer ; ( 2 ) William, who served in the array 177 7-80, m. Hannah 
Buck of Haverhill, 25 June, 1780, d. Haverhill, 9 April, 1827, 
leaving descendants; (3) Charles, who enlisted in 1777 for the war, 
and is supposed to have d. unm. in the West Indies. 

Capt. Davis was m. (ist) July, 1785, at Bradford, to Priscilla, 
dau. of Deacon Ebenezer Gjiffin of Bradford, and of his wife 
Priscilla, dau. of Benjamin and Priscilla (Hazen) Kimball. Issue : 
one child, who d. in infancy, 19 Oct. 1786. Mrs. Davis d. 22 
Oct. 1786. 

He was m. (2d) 21 Aug. 1787, at Portland, to Mehitable Griffin, 
a younger sister of his first wife. Issue : Charles Stewart Daveis, 
b. 10 May, 1788. 

After Capt. Davis's death his widow was m. 7 Nov. 1800, to John 
McLellan, and d. 21 April, 1823. 

CHARLES STEWART D.WEIS. 

Charles Stewart Daveis, the only son of Capt. Ebenezer 
Davis and his wife Mehitable Griffin, was born in Portland, 
Me., 10 May, 1788. 

By his father's early death, in 1799, he was left at the age 
of eleven years to the care of an e.xcellent mother. After re- 
ceiving the rudiments of his education in his native town, he 
was sent, in June, 1802, to Phillips Academy, Andover, where, 
under the instruction of its principal, Mark Newman, he was 
fitted for college. In 1803 he entered Bowdoin College, and 
graduated in 1807, at the head of its second class. 

On leaving college, Mr. Daveis entered the law office of 
Nicholas Emery, Esq., of Portland ; and was in 1810 admitted 
to the bar. He opened an office in Portland, where he re- 
mained during the whole of his long professional career. 

At the bar of Cumberland County Mr. Daveis came into 
successful competition with able lawyers, among whom he 
took a high rank. While he was well versed in the principles 



164 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of the Common Law, it was in the less known branches of 
Equity and Admiralty that he acquired his chief reputation. 
He was almost the first in the State to devote attention to 
equity practice, of which the older members of the bar were 
generally ignorant and distrustful ; and his acquirements in 
this branch were highly esteemed by Judge Story, who was 
his warm personal friend, and for whom he cherished the 
strongest admiration. He was an eminent admiralty lawyer, 
fearlessly espousing, at the risk of his personal safety, the 
cause of the sailors, who were then regarded when at sea 
as little better than slaves, — a condition of things which he, 
in conjunction with Mr. Justice Ware, the learned and able 
Judge of the United States District Court, did much to 
amend. 

Mr. Daveis was m., i June, 181 5, at Exeter, N. H., to 
Elizabeth Taylor, youngest daughter of Hon. John Taylor 
Oilman, Governor of New Hampshire, and his wife Deborah, 
daughter of Maj.-Gen. Nathaniel Folsom, of Exeter. 

In 1818, on the election of Samuel Fessenden as major- 
general of the twelfth division of Massachusetts militia, Mr. 
Daveis accepted a position on his staff, as division inspector, 
which he retained until 1827, when he received an appoint- 
ment as senior aide to Gov. Lincoln. 

It was at this time that he first took an active part in con- 
nection with the controversy with which for many years he 
was so intimately associated, and of the history, facts, argu- 
ments, and condition of which he has been pronounced on 
good authority to have known more than any other man in 
the State or nation. This was the dispute relating to the 
northeastern boundary of Maine, which had been for many 
years pending between the United States and Great Britain, 
but was now suddenly brought to a crisis by the action of the 
Provincial authorities of New Brunswick, in serving legal 
process on American settlers in the disputed country ; and 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 65 

especially in arresting on his own land, granted to him by the 
States of Maine and Massachusetts, one John Baker, a citizen 
of the former State, who was carried to Fredericton for trial. 
Gov. Lincoln promptly despatched Col. Daveis as special 
agent of the State, bearing a letter to Sir Howard Douglas, 
the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, to obtain infor- 
mation with regard to these aggressions, and to demand the 
release of Baker. Proceeding to St. Stephen's, Mr. Daveis 
hired horses and a guide, and set out across the country 
for Fredericton, a distance of over eighty miles, arriving 
25 Nov. 1827, after a journey of four days through the wil- 
derness, performed partly on horseback and partly on foot. 
The Governor declined to recognize him in an official ca- 
pacity; but he was treated with the most distinguished polite- 
ness, during his stay, by the members of the government, 
officers, and gentry of the place. After some delay, owing 
to the Governor's illness, Mr. Daveis proceeded to Houlton 
and Woodstock, and collected what evidence he was able, in 
the absence of official recognition, to obtain in relation to the 
British aggressions. In January, 1828, he returned to Port- 
land, and presented to Gov. Lincoln a report setting forth at 
length the information that he had acquired on the subject. 
The mission had proved unsuccessful, and Baker was tried 
and convicted in spite of all remonstrances. 

The controversy, in accordance with the Treaty of Ghent, 
and by virtue of a convention between the two governments, 
was now submitted to the arbitration of the King of the 
Netherlands ; and Hon. Albert Gallatin, and Judge Preble, 
of Portland, were appointed commissioners to prepare the 
American case. Judge Preble, who was sent as minister to 
the Hague, was anxious to avail himself of Mr. Daveis's valu- 
able services in the capacity of Secretary of Legation, an 
office which the latter declined. He consented however, at 
the earnest solicitation of the Judge, to accept an appoint- 



1 66 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ment as special confidential agent of the United States, to 
prepare and present the evidence in the American case. Sir 
Howard Douglas, recalled from New Brunswick, was charged 
by the British government with a similar mission. Mr. 
Daveis sailed from New York for Havre, ii Jan. 1830, and 
13 March reached the Hague. After completing his duties 
there, he made a brief trip to England and Scotland, in the 
course of which he spent much time attending the courts at 
Westminster Hall and the debates of Parliament, and also 
had the opportunity of making the acquaintance of some 
of the most eminent men of the period. He sailed from 
Liverpool, 11 July, and reached Boston in safety, after a long 
voyage. 

The unsatisfactory award of the arbiter — being a mere 
suggestion of a compromise — was not recognized as bind- 
ing by the United States. The question remained open; 
and after some disheartening years of ill-conducted and fruit- 
less negotiation, a bill was at length introduced into Congress, 
providing for a survey by national authority of the disputed 
border-line. Anxious to secure its passage, Hon. Edward 
Kent, at this time Governor of Maine, with the advice of his 
Council, commissioned Mr. Daveis, 25 April, 1838, as a special 
agent to co-operate with the Maine delegation in Congress 
in securing that result, and also to attend to some other mat- 
ters connected with the controversy. Mr. Daveis reached 
Washington, 10 May, and devoted himself ardently to the 
work. The results were eminently favorable. A general 
interest in the subject was awakened ; and although the bill 
was laid on the table, resolutions reported in the Senate 
by Hon. James Buchanan were unanimously adopted in 
both branches, strongly maintaining the right of Maine in 
the controversy. Of Mr. Daveis's efforts Gov. Kent says : 
" I think I can confidently say that no agent or envoy ever 
labored more diligently or more intelligently or efficiently 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 67 

than he did during that warm summer of 1838. . . . By 
his earnest persuasions he induced both Mr. Webster (on 
the 4th of July) and Mr. Buchanan, and otliers, to espouse 
our cause distinctly and earnestly, in strong speeches. He 
alone brought the whole question out of its narrow locality 
in the State into a national matter, regarded as one of in- 
terest to the whole country, involving questions of peace 
and war, which were fast becoming imminent and perilous. 
... I have always believed that Maine owed more to him 
than to any other man in thus bringing the whole subject 
before the nation and compelling action." In a letter 
addressed to Mr. Daveis, under date of 15 July, 1838, Gov. 
Kent says : " You have breathed into them the breath of 
life, and have done more to advance our cause, and place 
this matter on its true basis, and bring the administration 
to a right position than any other man has ever done. I 
am more than satisfied; I am delighted, not more with the 
success than with the skill and indefatigable and persevering 
and able manner in which you have presented and enforced 
our right." Mr. Daveis submitted to the Governor a lengthy 
and valuable report of his mission, which was laid before the 
Legislature. 

The following year, the draft of a convention having been 
received from England, the Secretary of State, Mr. Forsyth, 
made a special visit to Maine, to learn the views of the lead- 
ing men. With this object, at the President's suggestion. 
Gov. Fairfield and Senator Williams of the dominant party, 
and Ex-Governor Kent and Mr. Daveis as representatives of 
the Whig opposition, were invited to a private conference. 
They met Mr. Forsyth at Portland, 18 June, and after a har- 
monious consultation for two days, drew up and signed a 
paper, disapproving the British proposition and the counter- 
project of the American government, and embodying their 
own views in the matter. 



1 68 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

In 1 841 Mr. Daveis, being a member of the State Senate, 
as chairman of the joint special committee on the North- 
eastern Boundary, submitted, 30 March, an able report of 
fifty-five pages, accompanied with a series of resolutions 
breathing a spirit of calm determination, which were adopted 
unanimously in the Senate, and in the House by a large 
majority. In May he was summoned to a private confer- 
ence on the subject, at Boston, with Mr. Webster, then 
Secretary of State. 

The following year Lord Ashburton's special mission, re- 
sulting in the Treaty of Washington, closed the vexed ques- 
tion forever. In this last act of the drama Mr. Daveis took 
no part. During the long years in which he was identified 
with the controversy, his feelings had become warmly enlisted 
on the side of his native State ; and he was recognized as 
one of the most uncompromising and zealous advocates of 
her right. It was not unnatural therefore that while acqui- 
escing in the result, he could not give his cordial approval 
to the terms of settlement. 

In politics Mr. Daveis was a Federalist, and afterward a 
Whig. Unlike most of his political associates, however, he 
admitted the justice of the war of 1812. In 1840 he was 
elected to the State Senate. He presided at its organization, 
and served as chairman of the joint special committee on the 
Northeastern Boundary, and also as chairman of the joint 
standing committee on the Judiciary. In 1848 he was an 
active supporter of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, and was 
nominated on the Whig State ticket for elector-at-large, but 
was beaten by a considerable plurality, the State casting its 
vote for Gen. Cass. 

Through all his engrossing public and professional duties, 
Mr. Daveis never failed to find time for literary pursuits, in 
which he delighted and excelled. A diligent student, gifted 
with fine abilities and a rare memory, he acquired an eminent 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 69 

reputation for scholarship, and especially for familiarity with 
classical lore. He wrote much, and in his earlier years often 
in verse ; and was a frequent contributor to the newspapers 
and periodicals of the time, including occasionally the "North 
American Review." He also delivered many public ad- 
dresses, charming his hearers by the grace of his manner 
no less than by the beauty of his language. His productions 
were elaborately prepared, and carefully adapted to express 
the most delicate shades of meaning. 

His literary abilities were first brought to public notice by 
an oration on Greek Literature, delivered in Sept. 1808, at 
Bowdoin College, before the Peucinian Society, of which he 
had been among the founders ; and afterward published in the 
" Monthly Anthology," prefaced with a highly compliment- 
ary editorial note. This oration procured him an invitation 
to contribute to that fastidious publication, and an election 
as corresponding member of the Anthology Club. Among 
his other public addresses may be mentioned an oration de- 
livered to the Federal Republicans of Portland, 4 July, 1812 ; 
a historical oration at Fryeburg, 19 May, 1825, on the hun- 
dredth anniversary of Lovewell's Indian fight; an oration 
delivered, at the request of the citizens' coinmittee, 9 Aug. 
1826, on the death of Adams and Jefferson; and a second 
Fourth of July oration at Portland in 1831. In 1853 he 
wrote for the New Hampshire Historical Society a memoir 
of Gov. Gilman, which was read at Exeter on the hundredth 
anniversary of the Governor's birth, 19 Dec. 

Mr. Daveis was a diligent student of American history, and 
collected much material for a life of Gen. Knox, which was 
to have formed one of the concluding series of Mr. Sparks's 
biographies, and for which the General's family papers were 
placed at his disposal. Professional duties, however; the 
extended scope of the work, embracing a sketch of the ar- 
tillery service during the Revolutionary war; and finally an 



170 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

attack of paralysis, — indefinitely postponed the completion 
of this cherished design, which, though perhaps never for- 
mally renounced, remained at last unfulfilled. 

To his Alma Mater Mr. Daveis always cherished a strong 
attachment, and served her faithfully for many years. In 
1820 he was chosen a member of the Board of Overseers, 
of which he was several years Vice-President; and in 1836 
he became one of the Trustees, retaining the position until 
induced by declining health to resign it in 1864. He was a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of which he was for 
many years Corresponding Secretary, and later Vice-President 
and President. On the formation of the Alumni Society, 
of which he was chosen the first President, i Sept. 1835, 
he delivered an oration which was commended by Judge 
Story as " full of strong and vivid thought," and pronounced 
to " add to his former efforts a new claim upon the grati- 
tude of the scholars of the country." In Sept. 1839, at 
the inauguration of Prcs. Woods, Mr. Daveis delivered a 
Latin address, which was responded to by the President. 
He also wrote, in 1854, an address for the dedication of the 
new King Chapel at Brunswick. In 1844 he received from 
the college the degree of Doctor of Laws. 

Mr. Daveis was in 1828 elected a member of the Maine 
Historical Society, and was subsequently chosen a corre- 
sponding member of the Historical Societies of Massachu- 
setts and New Hampshire, and an honorary member of those 
of New York and Georgia. In 1814 he was chosen an hon- 
orary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard 
College, there being then no chapter of the Society at 
Brunswick. 

In the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati Mr. Daveis always 
felt the warmest interest, and for many years took a very 
active part. Elected a member in 1809, at the age of 
twenty-one years, as successor to his father, he was in 1839 



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chosen a member of the Standing Committee, on which he 
served until 1851, when he was elected Vice-President. 
In 1853, on the death ot Robert G. Shaw, he was chosen 
President of the Society, and was successively re-elected 
to that office until his death in 1865. He prepared, by di- 
rection of the Society, a new edition of its " Institution and 
Proceedings," which in 1859 was ordered to be printed. He 
also wrote for Appleton's Cyclopeedia a historical account of 
the Society. He was often chosen delegate to the meetings 
of the General Society, and in 1854 was elected Vice-Presi- 
DENT-General, an office which he retained until his death. 

In his active career Mr. Daveis was suddenly arrested, 
28 April, 1850, by a stroke of paralysis, which partially de- 
prived him of the use of his right side. Ten years later, 
3 April, i860, his wife died, after a long period of feeble 
health. Mr. Daveis survived her nearly five years, under 
the constantly increasing burden of bodily infirmity, en- 
during with unmurmuring Christian resignation the inac- 
tivity so wearisome to an energetic and social spirit, until 29 
March, 1865, when, in his native town, onthe site of his father's 
old home, he quietly breathed his last, at the age of "jG years. 

Mr. Daveis was a man of earnest religious character, the 
beauty and sincerity of which were amply attested by his 
whole life, and most of all by the last sad years of feeble- 
ness and bereavement, borne with heroic and touching resig- 
nation. Of a truly chivalrous nature, he combined in a rare 
degree manly energy and fearlessness with a womanly ten- 
derness and purity; commanding the sincere respect of all, 
and the warmest affection of those whose privilege it was to 
know him well. Though an untiring worker, he always found 
time to encourge those who were deserving of aid, especially 
young men. He was not prone to entertain extreme views, 
and his bearing towards his opponents was ever respectful 
and courteous. His manners were dignified, courtly, affable ; 



172 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

and, under whatever provocation, always eminently those of 
a Christian gentleman. 

He had five children ; namely, — 

John Taylor Gilman, M.D., of Portland. 

Edward Henry, a member of the bar in Portland, editor of some 
volumes of law reports; b. 3 .\pril, 1818, m. 8 June, 1853, 
Susan W. Bridge of Augusta, Me. Has two daughters. 

Mary Cogswell, b. 27 March, 1820, m. 20 Dec. 1842, the Rev. 
David Greene Haskins, S.T.D., of Cambridge, Mass. Has one 
son, David Greene Haskins, Jr., and two daughters. 

Anna Ticknor, b. it April, 1823, m. 8 June, 1847, Charles 
Jones of Portland. Has one daughter. 

Caroline Elizabeth, b. ii Dec. 1826, d. 13 Dec. 1827. 

JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN DAVEIS, M.D. 

Eldest son of Charles S. Daveis, whom he succ. in 1865 ; 
b. Portland, Me., 21 March, 18 16; d. there 9 May, 1873. He 
was educated at the Round Hill School, at the academies 
of Portland and Exeter, and at Harvard University (class of 
1836), and was one of the Sophomore Class the whole of 
which was dismissed for rebellion. He then studied medi- 
cine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated 
in 1837, and at Boston, and began practice in 1840 in his 
native city, where he resided until his death. He was a skil- 
ful oculist. He received the honorary degrees of M.D. (1837) 
and of A.M. (1858) from Bowdoin College. 

He m. II Oct. 1847, Frances Ellen Gordon, by whom he had 
three daughters ; namely, Anne Emery of Portland ; Frances, who 
d. in infancy ; Elizabeth Taylor, who m. George Abbot, now of 
Cambridge, Mass., and has two daughters. 

DAVID GREENE HASKINS, JR. 

Son of Rev. David G. and Mary C. (Daveis) Haskins, and 
only grandson of Charles S. Daveis, whom he succ. in 1876; 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 73 

was b. Roxbury, Mass., 5 March, 1845 '> H. U. 1866; Harvard 
Law School, 1869; admitted to the bar at Boston, 1870; Re- 
cording Sec. N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society, 1873-90; 
AssT. Sec. of the Mass. Soc. Cin., 1878-90; Secretary, 1890. 

Jamrs Patois. 

He was a native of old Deerfield or Conway, Mass. ; d. Amity, 
Alleghany Co., N. Y., in Aug. 1817, ae. ab. 72. Com. lieut. in 
Greaton's (3d) reg. i Jan. 1777. He sers'ed seven years, and 
was present at the surrender of Burgoyne and of Cornwallis ; 
was afterward a farmer in Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; 
and about 1809 he settled in Scio, now Amity, Alleghany Co., 
residing on the farm of his son Henry until his death. 

The descent of his wife, Irene Ticknor, from Sergeant IVilliam ^ 
Ticknor, of Scituate, b. Kent, Eng., often selectman of Scituate, 
and an officer under Gen. Cudworth, in Philip's war (1675), who 
m. 29 Oct. 1656, in Boston, Hannah, dau. of John Stockbridge (she 
d. 1665), was through William' b. 1664, m. 1696 Lydia, dau. of 
Dea. Joseph Tilden, and removed to Lebanon, Ct., in 1710 ; John* 
(her father), b. 1699, d. 1751, m. at Lebanon, Ct., in 1724, Mary 
Bailey, and had nine children, of whom Irene (b. 1747, d. Aug. 
1 81 5) was the eighth. Hon. George Ticknor, LL.D., author of the 
" History of Spanish Literature," was a descendant of John? The 
children of James and Irene (Ticknor) Davis, all of whom were b. 
in Mass., were — 

James, who was a waiter in his father's company, and who d. 

near Geneva, N. Y., leaving a number of children. 
Cyrus, of Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
Harry, a farmer and deacon of the Baptist Church in Scio, who 

had ten children. 
Charles, farmer, also of Scio ; one of the storming party which, 
in the war of 181 2, took Fort George, U. C, and d. there in 
1 8 14, leaving a wife and six children, one of whom. Henry, 
was a resident of McGregor, Iowa. 
LuciNDA, who m. Levi Stanhope. 
Philinda, who m. Hyde. 



174 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Joljn 2iat)t!$. 

Of Kingston, Mass.; d. Norway, Me., in 1816. Entered 
the army as a private in Peleg VVadsworth's Co., Cotton's 
reg. 6 May, 1775 ; was serg.-major of Pope's Co., Shepard's 
(4th) reg. 22 Jan. 1777, to 3 Jan. 1778, when com. ensign; 
com. heut. and adjutant same reg. 14 April, 1780; and served 
to the end of the war, having been present at Bemis's Heights, 
Monmouth, and Quaker Hill, R. I. He removed to Norway 
in 1814. 

WILLIAM P DAVIS. 

Eldest son of John, whom he succ. in 1819. His bro. 
Thomas was living in 1850. 

asialttr ZSran. 

He was b. (probably) New London, Ct., 5 Sept. 1751; d. 
in western N. Y., ab. 1827, while on a visit to a son. Lieut, 
in Wigglesworth's (13th) reg. 1777; in Sullivan's R. L cam- 
paign in 1778; com. capt. in Marshall's (loth) reg. i Jan. 
1783. He had an older brother, Scth, who was one of the 
first settlers of Phelps, N. Y. 

Son of Seth and ]\Liry (Waterus) Dean, m. i June, 1741. By 
his wife Abigail he had — 

Harvey, b. 16 Aug. 1778 ; Pauline, b. 21 May, 1782 ; Chauncey, 
b. 5 April, 1784; ISA.4C, b. 8 Feb. 17S6; Fannt, b. 14 March, 
I 790 ; Ednah, b. 19 Feb. i 794, m. David Thomas of Aurora, N. Y. ; 
Lucius Q. C, b. 7 May, i 796. 

HENRY DEARBORN. 

He was an original member of the N. H. Society, but sub- 
sequently became a member of the Mass. Society by right 
of residence. He was b. Hampton, N. H., 23 Feb. 1751 ; d. 
Roxbury, Mass., 6 June, 1829. He began practice as a 
physician at Nottingham Square, N. H., in 1772, but took a 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 75 

special interest in military affairs, and emploj'ed such time as 
he could spare from his profession in studjing the art of war. 
On the alarm from Lexington he collected a company of 
sixty minute-men and marched to Cambridge, reaching that 
place early on the 20th April. He was soon after appointed 
capt. in Stark's reg., and took part in the battle of Bunker 
Hill. He was in Arnold's expedition to Canada, and was 
taken prisoner in the assault on Quebec. Having been ex- 
changed in 1777, he was appointed major in Scammell's reg., 
and took part in the battles of Stillwater, Saratoga, Mon- 
mouth, and Newtown, and the siege of Yorktown. He dis- 
tinguished himself at Monmouth by a successful charge. 
In 1 78 1 he was appointed on Washington's staff as deputy- 
quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel. After the 
war he went to ]\Ionmouth, ]\Ie., and in 1789 was appointed ' 
U. S. marshal for that State. He was elected to Congress 
in 1793, and served two terms. Pres. Jefferson appointed 
him Secretary of War in 1801, and he held that position 
until Pres. Madison took office in 1809. He was then ap- 
pointed collector of the port of Boston, and occupied that 
place until 1812, when he was appointed senior maj.-gen. 
U. S. army, and assigned to the command of the Northern 
Department. He captured York (now Toronto), 27 ^\pril, 
1813, and Fort George, 27 May following. In July of that 
year he was recalled (on account of political intrigue, it is 
said) and placed in command of the city of New York. Pres. 
Monroe appointed him minister to Portugal in 1822. After 
serving two years he resigned, returned home, and settled in 
Roxbury, Mass. He published an account of the battle of 
Bunker Hill, and wrote a journal of his expedition to Canada.* 

His descent from Godfrey'^ Dearborn, one of the original settlers 
of Exeter, with Wheelwright, in 1639, who d. 4 Feb. 1686, and 

• Printed in the Proceedings of the Mass. Historical Societ)-. 2d series, vol. 
ii. pp. ::7 5-305. 



176 BIOGRArillCAL NOTICES UF THE 

Dorothy, widow of Philemon Dalton, was through Hcnry\^ b. prob. 
in Eng., d. 18 Jan. 1725, ae. 92, who m. 10 Jan. 1666, Ehzabeth 
Merriam ; John? b. 10 Oct. 1666, d. 22 Nov. 1750, who m. 4 Nov. 
1689, Abigail Bachelder; Simeon^ (his father), b. 31 July, 1706, d. 
13 Sept. 1766, who m. 5 Dec. 1728, Sarah Marston. 
He m. 28 March, 1780, Dorcas Osgood. 



HENRY ALE.XANDER SCAMMELL DEARBORN. 

Son of Gen. Henry, whom he succ. in 1832; b. Exeter, 
N. H., 3 March, 1783; d. Portland, Me., 29 July, 1851. He 
spent tvvo years at Williams College; graduated at William 
and Mary College in 1803 ; studied law under William Wirt, 
afterward with Judge Story, and practised for a time in Salem 
and Portland. He afterward superintended the erection of 
forts in Portland harbor; was deputy-collector under his 
father, and succ. him as collector of the port of Boston in 
1813-29; commanded the troops in Boston harbor in 181 2, 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. in 1816; brig. -gen. 
Mass. militia, 18 14; was a member of the Mass. Constitutional 
Convention of 1820; a representative in the Mass. Legisla- 
ture from Roxbury in 1 830; member of the E.xecutive Coun- 
cil in 1831; M. C. 1831-33; adj.-gen. of Mass. 1834-43; 
Mayor of Roxbury, 1847-51. He was active in originating 
and forwarding many useful works ; among them Bunker 
Hill Monument, the Hoosac Tunnel, and the beautiful ceme- 
teries at Mount Auburn and Forest Hills. 

He was a voluminous writer. Besides numerous contri- 
butions to periodicals, he was the author of the following 
printed works: "Commerce of the Black Sea," 3 vols, with 
charts ; " History of Navigation ; " " Defence of Gen. H. 
Dearborn against the Attack of Gen. Hull; " "Internal Im- 
provement and Commerce of the West ; " " Sketch of the 
Life of the Apostle Eliot; " a work on " Woad," or Pastel; 
and addresses on various public occasions. He left a large 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I 77 

number of volumes in manuscript; among otliers, " Life and 
Correspondence of Gen. H.Dearborn," in 11 vols. 4to ; "Ac- 
count of the Battle of Bunker Hill; " " Inquiry into the Con- 
duct of Gen. Putnam in relation to the Battle of Bunker 
Hill;" "Treatise on Grecian Architecture," 2 vols.; "Life 
of Col.W. R. Lee, U.S.A.," 2 vols.; "Life of Commodore 
Bainbridge," I vol.; "Life of Jesus Christ," 2 vols.; "Me- 
moir of Mount Auburn." 

He was a member of the American Academy and other 
scientific bodies. In 1811 he delivered the Fourth of July 
oration for the Bunker Hill Association. He was PRESIDENT 
of the Gen. Soc. of the CiN. from 1848 to 1851. 

He m. at Salem, 3 May, 1807, Hannah Swett, dau. of Col. Wil- 
liam R. Lee, and had — 

Julia Margarett.4, b. 25 Jan. 1808, m. 23 Jan. 1834, Hon. Asa 

W. H. Clapp of Portland, d. 3 June, 1867. 
Henry George Ralegh, b. 22 June, 1809, m. 6 July, 1840, Sarah 

Thurston. Civil engineer. 
W1LLLA.M Lee, b. 12 June, 181 2, Engineer Croton Water Works, d. 

N. Y. 15 March, 1875. He left a son, Win. Henry Dearborn, 

b. 10 Dec. 1 86 1, who is a civil engineer in N. Y. City. 

Watljan 13 ip. 

Of Woburn; lieut. in Wood's Co., L. Baldwin's reg. 1775- 
76; com. capt. in Wesson's (9th) reg. i March, 1777; in 
M. Jackson's (8th) reg. in 1783. He m. 16 Nov. 1769, 
Elizabeth Wyman of Woburn. She d. 28 Feb. 1780, a;. 31 
years 6 months. 

Of Beverly; pensioner, living in New York in 1820; com. 
lieut. in Marshall's (loth) reg. 15 Dec. 1778; in Vose's 
reg. in 1783. 



178 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

l^ctcc Hollibcr. 

He was adjutant in Paul D. Sargent's (i6th) reg. 1775-76; 
acting major of brigade (Sargent's), Oct. 1776; com. capt. in 
H.Jackson's (i6th) reg. 1777; Inspector of Boston Custom 
House many years, and until his death, 23 June, 1816, a. 6^,. 

He was b. Kingston, Mass., 2 June, 1747; d. there 18 May, 
1824. In early life Major Drew was engaged in ship-build- 
ing, the occupation of his ancestors for many years. He 
was a member of Wadsworth's Co. of minute-men, and re- 
sponded promptly on receiving the Lexington alarm. Com. 
2d lieut. in Bailey's (2d) reg. i July, 1775; 1st lieut. i Jan. 
1776; capt. same reg. i Jan. 1777; major, 7 Jan. 1783; pres- 
ent at the siege of Boston, battles of Trenton, Princeton, and 
Monmouth, and at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was a mem- 
ber of the court which tried Joshua Hett Smith as an accom- 
plice of Andre. Postmaster of Kingston for many years 
previous to his death ; representative in the General Court, 
1794. 1795. 1797. 1803. and 1804; app. Justice of the Peace 
in 1797. Previous to the war of 1812-15, he was an agent 
of the government to superintend the erection of forts in 
Plymouth harbor and at Fairhaven. He was a punctual 
attendant at the annual meetings of the Cincinnati,' and was, 
in the absence of the President, frequently called to the 
chair. 

Distinguished for activity of mind as well as of body, he 
sustained also the reputation of a brave and discreet officer, 
and merited and received the approbation and esteem of all 
with whom he was associated. 

His descent from /<?/;« ^ Drera of Devonshire, Eng., and of Ply- 
mouth, ab. 1660, d. 29 July, 1721, se. 79, and wife Hannah, was 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1/9 

through Samuel,- b. 1678; Cornelius'^ (his father), who m. Sarah 
Bartlett. 

Seth m. 3 Dec. 1772, Hannah Brewster, a descendant of Elder 
Wm. She d. 13 April, 1832. They had — 
Nathaniel, b. 22 Aug. 1773, d. 11 Sept. 1775. 
Hannah, b. 3 Jan. 1776, m. Oct. 1803, Eh Cook, d. 13 Dec. 1861. 
Seth. 

Christiana, b. 1783, d. 29 July, 1794. 
Sylvia, b. 30 Sept. 1785, m. 11 April, 1805, Thos. Cushman, d. 22 

Nov. 1865. 
Francis, b. 29 July, 1788, m. 18 April, 1816, Joanna Bradford; 
(2d) 27 Sept. 1827, Lucy Sampson; (3d) 6 Feb. 1834, Betsey 
Southworth. He d. 9 Dec. 1862. Had Mary, Joanna, and 
Elizabeth F. 

SETH DREW. 

Son of Major Seth, whom he succ. in 1824; b. Kingston, 
Mass., 6 Jan. 1778 ; d. 20 Jan. 1854. He was Deacon and one 
of the main pillars of the Baptist Society of Kingston, and 
represented that town in the Legislature of Mass., in 1835-37 
and 1842. He was a highly respected, useful, and philan- 
thropic citizen. 

Hem. 17 Nov. 1803, Mary, dau. of Elisha Washburn, who d. 
I Jan. 1868. They had — 
Thos. Bradford, b. 18 Sept. 1804, d. 15 Aug. 1826. 
Clement. 

Christian.^, b. 28 Feb. 1809, m. Levi S. Prince, Oct. 1832. 
Job Washburn, b. 30 Sept. 181 1, m. 22 Dec. 1833, Mary Ann 

Bailey, d. 17 Oct. 1869. 
Christopher Prince, b. 27 June, 1815, m. June, 1841, Rebecca 

Simmons. 
Eliza, b. 28 June, 181 7, m. 22 Nov. 1838, Lysander Bartlett, Jr. 
Hannah Cook, b. 22 Dec. 1819, m. 24 Nov. 1853, John Keely of 

Haverhill. 
Seth, b. 15 May, 1822, m. 5 Nov. 1848, Emily F. Robbins. 
Eli Cook, b. 17 Feb. 1825, m. Harriet K. Eaton of Middleboro'. 



l80 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



CLEMENT DREW. 

Son of Seth, whom he succ. in 1854; b. 27 Nov. 1806; d. 
31 May, 1889. He was engaged in mercantile business in 
Boston, and was a marine painter of some note. For many 
years he was a prominent member of the Baptist Society in 
Tremont Temple, and for fifty years one of its Deacons. He 
was a typical New England man, being a direct descendant 
of Elder Brewster, and inherited those sterling qualities which 
distinguished the early settlers. He was one of the original 
anti-slavery men, and was always interested and active in 
all philanthropic and religious movements. 

He m. in 1829 Elizabeth Teal, and had — 
Caroline E., b. 16 Aug. 1830. 
George Henry, b. 21 Sept. 1833. 

GEORGE HENRY DREW. 

Son of Clement Drew, whom he succ. in 1S90 ; was b. King- 
ston, Mass., 21 Sept. 1833, and received his education in Bos- 
ton. He was one of the founders of the Elm Hill Baptist 
Society in Roxbury, and its first Treasurer. After the Society 
developed into a church, he was, in 1887, elected a Deacon. 
He holds several other positions of trust and responsibility. 
His profession is that of an electrician, and he resides in 
Roxbury. 

He m. 24 Oct. 1855, Clara Ann, dau. of Charles Wren Burton. 
Children — 

Ella E., b. 16 Aug. 1857. 
Emily M., b. 11 Nov. 1862. 
Clara M., b. 28 May, 1S69. 

Joi^n iltiKitrllr. 

Com. surgeon of Crane's artillery, 30 Sept. 1782. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. lol 

iSenjamtn ISaton. 

He was b. Marblehead, Mass., 1755 ; com. 2d lieut. Crane's 
artillery, i Feb. 1777; served through the war; and was in- 
spector of customs at Boston for some years, and until his 
death, 20 Aug. 1819. 

He m. 15 March, i 781, Ann, dau. of Shippie Townsend of Boston, 
and sister of Dr. David Townsend, an original member of the Society. 
They had — 

Nancy, b. 12 Oct. 1782, m. 31 Oct. 1809, James Moorfield of Bos- 
ton, who had: Ann Townsend, b. 6 Jan. i8ii,m. 27 May, 1836, 
George Eaton ; Martha Brcnnan, m. Rev. Charles A. Farley 
of Boston ; Elizabeth, m. Charles VV. Storey of Boston ; Maij 
is unm. 

David, b. 2 April, 1784, d. 12 Sept. 1784. 

Betsey, b. 27 Sept. 1785, d. unm. 9 Nov. 1857. 

Sarah, b. 30 March, 1789, m. Abraham Gamage, d. s. p. 25 Aug. 
1845. 

Abijah, b. 3 Aug. 1791; Alexander, b. 27 Oct. 1792; and 
Mary, b. 27 April, 1795. All d. unm. 

George and Ann Townsend Eaton have Ann Moorfichi, Charles 
Marvin, and Hannah Andretvs. 

Rev. C. A. and Martha B. Farley have Frank Moorfield. 

CHARLES MARVIN EATON. 

Son of George and Ann Townsend Eaton, and great-grand- 
son of Lieut. Eaton, whom he succ. in 1873; was b. Boston, 
20 Aug. 1849. He is a mercantile printer, and resides at 
Wellesley Hills. 

JCljomas ISlrtoartrs. 

He was the son of John and Abigail (Webb) Edwards ; b. 
Boston, Mass., i Aug. 1753 ; d. Boston, 4 Aug. 1806. Entered 
the Boston Latin School, 1760, and was graduated at Cam- 
bridge in 1 77 1. He read law in the office of John Williams of 



lS2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Boston, and was admitted to practice in that town. Com. 
lieut. in Henry Jackson's (i6th) reg., 31 May, 1777; brigade 
major in Rhode Island, Sept.-Dec. 1778; at West Point and 
Tappan, N. Y., Sept. 1780; heut. and judge advocate, i Jan. 
to 21 Sept. 1 781; appointed by Congress judge advocate 
general of the army, 28 Sept. 178 1 ; in Sprout's (2d) reg. 
1783. After the war he resumed practice of the law in 
Boston, and held some local offices. He delivered the ora- 
tion before the Cincinnati Society, 4 July, 1792, and was its 
Secretary from 1786 to his death, on which occasion the 
Society voted to attend his funeral in a body. He was a 
useful and exemplary citizen, and a man of sterling integrity 
of character. He was always very active in promoting the 
interests of the Society, and attended a meeting of the 
General Society at Philadelphia, Pa., to which he was a 
delegate, in May, 1800, making the fatiguing journey, at 
that time, by stage-coach. 

The i6th Mass. reg. (Henry Jackson's) was noted for its 
soldierly qualities. It left Boston to join the main army 
near Philadelphia, 7 Oct. 1777, and took part in the battles of 
Monmouth, 28 June, 1778 ; Quaker Hill, R. I., 29 Aug. 1778; 
and Springfield, N. J., 23 June, 1780. 

His descent from yc^/;;/ ^ Edwards of Boston, b. Wales, 1670, and 
Sibella Newman, great-granddaughter of Gov. John Winthrop, b. i o 
March, 1670, was through y(5//;/,^ b. 3. Jan. 1696, and Mary Lewis, 
b. 21 Jan. 1703 ; John^ (his father), b. 15 June, 1725, d. 25 May, 
1775, and Abigail Webb, b. 16 Feb. 1727, d. 6 Aug. 1764. 

Thomas m. (ist), in 1785, Sarah Lewis Goldthwait, and had seven 
children; (2d) 19 Jan. 1802, Mary (Walker) Jewett, b. 13 Aug. 
1768, d. II May, 1855, and had John, and Willum Eustis, who 
d. 16 Sept. 1877. 

JOHN EDWARDS. 

Eldest son of Thomas, whom he succ. in 1839; b. Bos- 
ton, 6 Nov. 1802; d. Portland, Me., 23 Dec. 1886. He at- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 83 

tended the Latin School in Boston until 18 16, when he went 
into the office of the Portland (Me.) Gazette and Advertiser 
newspaper for a year, thence to the Fryeburg Academy. Upon 
graduation he returned to the Gazette office, and soon after 
purchased a half interest in the business; in 1837 he sold his 
interest and purchased a half interest in the Bangor Whig and 
Courier, which he held for three years, returning to Portland 
in 1841, where he established the Bulletin newspaper, and 
was connected with other journals ; he retired from active 
business in 1870. 

He m. Sarah Merrill, 9 Dec. 1824, who was b. Portland, Me., 6 Dec. 
1800, d. 7 July, 1869, and had Charles ; George, d. 24 July, 1847 ; 
John, Jr., d. 12 Oct. 1881 (grad. at U. S. Military Academy, West 
Point, N. Y., in 185 1 ; served on the frontier in Texas, California, 
Utah, Oregon, and Washington Territory, and through the war of 
the Rebellion, participating in many battles as lieut., capt., brevet- 
major, and lieut.-col. 3d reg. artillery, U. S. A.) ; Henry J., merchant, 
Chicago, 111. ; Julia A., wife of E. A. Noyes, Portland, Me. 

CHARLES EDWARDS. 

Eldest son of John, whom he succ. 4 July, 1 887. Civil 
engineer on preliminary surveys, location, and construction 
of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence R. R. 1846-53; on surveys 
for European & North American Railway in New Bruns- 
wick, 1853; resident engineer on Grand Trunk Railway, 
Portland Division, 1854-58; civil engineer of city of Port- 
land, 1859-60; in the U. S. Light-House Service as Acting 
Engineer and Supt. of Construction, 1861-65 ! Assistant 
Engineer and Supt. of Construction, 1865-86. Resides in 
Portland. 

Of Lenox, Mass.; d. there 12 Jan. 1822, se. 68. Ensign 
and quartern!, in Vose's ( ist) reg. until com. lieut. and paym. 



184 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

30 Aug. 1780. A magistrate of Lenox after the war. Sarah, 
his widow, was living in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1854. 

:c<rcJ)cmtaI) ISntcrson. 

He was b. Haverhill, Mass., 20 Jan. 1749; d. there 11 
Dec. 1832. On the alarm from Lexington, 19 April, 1775, he 
joined Samuel Clement's Co. as a private ; was ensign in 
Eben. Francis's reg. 3 P"eb. 1777; lieut. and quarterm. in 
Tupper's (nth) reg. in 1780; com. capt. in Marshall's (loth) 
reg. 27 Oct. 1780. He served at Bunker Hill, at Valley 
Forge, and in the campaign ending in Burgoyne's surrender. 
Washington observed of Capt. Emerson that he was " a brave 
officer, a good disciplinarian, and never lost his temper." He 
resided at the old family homestead until his death. 

Michael'^ Emerson, the head of the original family of Emerson, 
emigrated to America about the year 1640, and settled in Haverhill, 
Mass., in 1652 ; m. Hannah Webster in 1657, and had fifteen chil- 
dren ; Jonathan^ b. 9 March, 1669, m. in 1699, and had t\velve 
children; Nehcmiah^ (father of Capt. Emerson), b. 24 April, 1721, 
m. Susannah Symonds, and had sixteen children. 

Capt. Emerson m. 1784, Mary Whittier, who d. 7 Sept. 1835. 
They had six children. 

HENRY EMERSON. 

He was the youngest son of Capt. Nehcmiah, whom he 
succ. in 1843; b. Haverhill, 27 Oct. 1794; d. Cincinnati, 
O., 27 Sept. 1858. He was a prominent merchant in New 
Orleans, La., and Cincinnati, O., for over forty years. 

He m. Evelina Benbridge, granddaughter of Commodore Truxtun, 
U. S. Navy. They had four children. 

NATHANIEL WHITTIER EMERSON. 

Eldest son of Henry Emerson, whom he succ. in 1863 ; was 
b. Cincinnati, 16 Jan. 1S29. He was a merchant in Cincin- 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 85 

nati for twenty-five years ; afterward (1876) removed to the 
city of New York, where he now resides. 

He m. 21 Dec. 1858, Susan Key, dau. of Hon. Wm. Key Bond of 
Cincinnati. Children — 

Wm. Key Bond, b. 17 Dec. i860, resides in city of New York. 

Henry, b. 4 March, 1862, d. Panama Bay, 11 Sept. 1877. 

John Robinson, b. 20 May, i866, d. May, 1867. 

lEptJraim iSmerg. 

Of Bradford; d. Newbury, Mass., 27 Sept. 1827. Ensign 
in Wigglesworth's, afterward C. Smith's (13th) reg. 1777, 
and served in Sulhvan's R. I. campaign in 1778; com. lieut. 
and paym. 10 April, I779; i" Tupper's (6th) reg. 1783. 
His son John, b. 1790, was Hving in Georgetown, Mass., in 
1867. 

aaSiUiam lEustis, J^.®., ILIL.B, 

He was b. Boston, 10 June, 1753; d. 6 Feb. 1825; edu- 
cated under Master Lovell. having entered the Boston Latin 
School in 1761, and was graduated at Cambridge in 1772. 
He studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren, and on the 
day of the Lexington battle he went to the scene of action, 
and assisted in dressing the wounds of some of the militia. 
At Warren's solicitation, he was com. surgeon of Gridley's ar- 
tillery reg. 19 April, 1775; and I Jan. 1777, was com. hos- 
pital surgeon and physician, occupying during the remainder 
of the war the house of Beverley Robinson (a Loyalist, who 
had joined the British), situated on the Hudson River oppo- 
site West Point. A part of this house was the headquarters 
of Benedict Arnold at the time he was in correspondence with 
the enemy. In all the duties pertaining to his office Dr. 
Eustis was faithful, humane, and indefatigable. His urbanity 
and social qualities led him to an acquaintance and friendly 
intercourse with many persons of high rank and respecta- 



1 86 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

bility of character. He was at one time offered a commis- 
sion in the hne of the army as heut.-col. of artillery by Gen. 
Knox ; but he preferred the medical department, where he 
might improve in the knowledge of his profession. He was 
one of the last of the medical staff who remained in the 
service, and at the close of the war commenced practice in 
Boston.* In 1786-87 he was a volunteer surgeon in the 
army of Gen. Lincoln, which quelled Shays's rebellion. In 
1788 he became a member of the General Court, taking a 
conspicuous part in the debates during six or seven years in 
succession; served for two years on the Board of Council- 
lors; was a member of Congress in 1800-5, and again in 
1821-23; was a zealous advocate of the administration of 
President Madison, and was app. by him in 1809 Secretary 
of War, which office he resigned on the surrender of Hull's 
army in 1812. In 1815 he was app. minister to Holland, 
and was Gov. of Mass. in 1823-25, dying in Boston while in 
office. He was Vice-PreS- of the SOCIETY in 1786- 18 10, 
and again in 1820, and delivered the oration before the 
Society, 4 July, 1791. He received the honorary degree of 
LL.D. from Harvard University in 1823, and received literary 
honors from other colleges. He was a member, and for 
some time a councillor, of the Mass. Medical Society. Dr. 
Eustis possessed a heart replete with humane and social 
feelings ; and his hospitable and graceful manners rendered 
his house — the Gov. Shirley mansion in Roxbury — a happy 
resort to his friends and to strangers. 

His descent from William * Eustis and wife Sarah, who d. i 2 June, 
1 713, se. 74, early settlers in Boston, was through William ^h. 25 
Feb. 1660-61, d. 10 Feb. 1736-37, who m. 29 Oct. 1688, Sarah, 
dau. of Thomas Cutler, who d. 28 June, 1748, ae. 85 ; Benjamin? b. 
20 Feb. 1690, d. abt. 1761, who m. 4 March, i 713-14, Katharine, 

* An interestinc; statement concerning; the origin of the Socletv of the Cincin- 
nati, written at this time by Dr. Eustin, is printed in the .'\ppendi.\. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 87 

dau. of George Ingersoll ; Benjamin ^ (his father), a lieut. in the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., b. 16 April, 1720, who m. 
in Cambridge, 1 1 May, 1 749, Elizabeth, dau. of Abraham and 
Prudence (Hancock) Hill. She d. 30 May, 1775, se. 47. William 
m. Caroline, dau. of Woodbury Langdon of N. H., who survived 
until 12 Oct. 1S65. No issue. 

WILLIAM EUSTIS. 

He was the eldest son of Abraham Eustis and grand- 
nephew of Gov. Eustis, whom he succ. in 1848; b. Fort 
Adams, Newport, R. I., 17 Nov. 18 10; d. Philadelphia, 4 
July, 1889. He was graduated at West Point in 1830, and 
viras com. lieut. 3d infantry; afterward transferred to the 1st 
dragoons; and in 1839 sent by the Secretary of War to the 
Royal Cavalry School at Saumur, France. In the following 
year he furnished a translation of the French cavalry tactics. 
He was promoted to be capt. in 1845, ^""^ served under Gen. 
Taylor in the war with Mexico. In 1849 he resigned from 
the army, and was employed as a civil engineer on important 
works in Louisiana and Mississippi until 1873, when he went 
to Philadelphia, and lived there until his death. 

He m. 8 April, 1844, Elizabeth, dau. of Titon Grelaud. They 
had — 

William Grelaud, b. 10 Sept. 1845. 
Mary Henri, b. 24 Jan. 1847. 
John Grelaud, b. 11 Feb. 1849. 
Walter Langdon, b. 20 Oct. 1851. 
IsAREL, b. 23 Nov. 1853. 
Louise, b. 17 April, 1856. 
Florence, b. 13 Nov. 1859. 

pcIatiaD lEbcrrtt. 

Of Westminster, Mass.; d. Oct. 1821. Ensign in Putnam's 
(5th) reg. 1777-81; com. lieut. 25 April, 1781 ; in Vose's 
(ist) reg, 1783. 



1 88 BIOGRAl'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

By his first wife he had : Pelatiah, Mary, Joel, John C, Mela- 
TiAH, and Asa C. By his second wife he had : Hiram, Sar.\h, 
Leonard F., Tryphena S., George A., Susan A. All deceased, 
except Leonard F. 

J>lStUiam 3Bs»arOitan. 

Ensign in Bigelow's (15th) reg. 1777; com. lieut. 2 April, 
1779; in 5th reg. in 1783. 

Sonatljajt iFclt. 

He was b. Dedham, Mass., April, 1748; d. Wrentham, 
Mass., 5 Nov. 1800. Served in Pond's Co. at the battle of 
Lexington; com. lieut. in Shepard's (4th) reg. i Jan. 1777; 
capt. same reg. 14 Oct. 1781 ; was in Brooks's reg. in 1783, 
and after the war returned to his farm with a constitution 
broken down by hardship and exposure in the service. 

Hem. 18 Nov. 1784, Eunice Brastow. She d. 1S02. They had — 

Patfy, b. 29 Sept. 1785, d- Attleboro', m. Everett. 

Oliver. 

Joseph, b. 13 Nov. 1788, d. Savannah, 30 Jan. 1861, m. Anna 
Maria Foote. 

Nancy, b. 5 April, 1793, d. Boston, 20 Sept. 1865, m. John C. 
Proctor. 

OLIVER FELT. 

Eldest son of Jonathan, whom he succ. in 1826; b. Wren- 
tham, 20 March, 1787; d. there 5 Nov. 1846. Col. Felt was 
prominent in town affairs, represented Wrentham several 
years in the State Legislature ; was a member of the State 
Senate in 1845, and was a colonel of militia. 

He m. Alniira Shepard. His eldest son Oliver S. d. in 1838, and 
his grandson Olive/- S. in 1869. He had also J. A. Felt, merchant 
of Boston ; and Annie E. B. Felp. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 89 



JToiJias iFccnalTr. 

He was b. Kittery, Me. (on the site of the present Navy- 
Yard), I Feb. 1744; d. there 15 Aug. 1784. He was com. 
capt. in Scamman's reg. i May, 1775, and served in the siege 
of Boston; was in Phinney's reg. i Jan. 1776; com. major in 
Brewer's reg. 6 Nov. 1776; com. lieut.-col. in M. Jackson's 
(8th) reg. 6 March, 1779; in Marshall's (lOth) reg. 1782-83. 

Col. Fernald's name appears in duplicate on the original 
roll of the Mass. Society. The one written last is identified 
as his autograph. 

The family in the U. S. descended from Renald Fenialil, who 
was the first surgeon among N. H. settlers. He came from England 
in 1630, with colonists who settled at Strawberry Bank, the present 
site of Portsmouth. He lived on the island now occupied by the 
U. S. Navy Yard. He had seven children (four sons and three 
daughters). He d. in 1656. His son William d. 5 July, 1728. 
He had fifteen children, the fourteenth being Tobias, b. 3 Dec. 
1702 ; d. II May, 1761. He had six children; the youngest was 
Tobias, the subject of this notice. 

Col. Fernald m. 1 7S0, Dorcas Mclntire of York, Me. They 
had — 

Harriet, b. 22 Nov. 1781, d. 26 Sept. 1826, unm. 
Juliet, b. 13 June, 1783. She m. Daniel Lane, an officer in the 
war of 181 2, who had for a time command of the forts in Bos- 
ton harbor. He d. Newtonville, Mass., 1873. They had Har- 
riet, b. 1810, who m. 1830, Albert Bingham, Belfast, Me. (he 
d. Aug. 1878; she now resides in Belfast, Me.) ; Albert, d. ; 
Daniel, a resident of Belfast ; Franklin, d. ; and others. 

James IStitoac^B ISucr iFinlts. 

Com. surgeon in Bigelow's (15th) reg. 25 Feb. 1778; in 
5th reg. in 1783. Received the honorary degree of A.M. 
from Brown University in 1803. 



I go BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Samuel jfinltS' 

Com. surgeon in Bradford's (14th) reg. 10 April, 1778; in 
Brooks's (7th) reg. 1782-83. 

He was b. Lexington, Mass., 24 Dec. 1752; d. 25 Sept. 
1837. Having studied medicine and begun to practise at the 
opening of the Revolutionary war, he was com. surgeon's 
mate in Vose's (ist) reg. 1777; surgeon, 17 April, 1779; 
served in the army seven years, and was present at the sur- 
render of Burgoyne and of Cornwallis. Dr. Fisk was a mem- 
ber of the Mass. Medical Society. 

His descent from DavU''- Fisk (or Fiske) of Watertown, 1637, 
was through Davict;- b. 1624, d. 14 Feb. 1710, who m. Lydia 
Cooper; David^ b. i Sept. 1648, d. 23 Oct. 1729, who m. Sarah 

; Robert,^ b. 8 May, 1681, d. 18 April, 1753, m. 27 May, 1718, 

Mary Stimpson ; Joseph^ (his father), b. 18 Oct. 1726, d. 8 Jan. 
1808, m. 13 Dec. 1 75 1, Hepzibah Raymond. He m. 31 July, 
1794, Elizabeth Stone, b. 13 Nov. 1770, d. 6 March, 1849. They 
had — 

Elizabeth, b. 15 June. 1795, d. Bloomingdale, N. Y., 28 March, 
1834, m. Richard Fisher. 

Joseph. 

JoN.AS Stone, b. 9 May, 1799, d. 23 March, 1828, m. Pamela 
Brown, and had two children. 

Sarah Ann, b. 18 May, 1802, d. 27 Dec. 1825. 

Franklin, b. 16 Oct. 1804, d. 23 March, 1868. 

Elmir.-\, b. 24 June, 1808, d. 22 Jan. 1834. 

JOSEPH FISKE, M. D. 

Eldest son of Dr. Joseph, whom he succ. in 1839; b. Lex- 
ington, Mass., 9 Feb. 1797; d. there 4 May, i860; member 
of the Mass. Medical Society. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. I9I 

He m. 12 Nov. 1829, Mary Gardner Kennard of Eliot, Me., b. 

17 Oct. 1795, and had — 
Joseph Alexander, 8 March, 1S30, m. Love Langdon Dodge of 

Methuen, and lived at Lawrence. 
Timothy Kennard, 5 .'\ug. 1833, m. 25 Dec. 1857, Barbara Peters. 

Com. ensign in Vose's (ist) reg. 23 Oct. 1781 ; living in 
Blue Hill, Me., in 1799. 

ISU'sija iFostcr. 

Com. ensign, 15 June, 1781 ; in 6th reg. in 1782-83. 

i!rt)omas jFostcr. 

Of Cape Ann; d. in the West Indies, 16 Dec. 1793. Com. 
ensign in M. Jackson's (8th) reg.; lieut. 6 Oct. 1780, and 
served to the close of the war. His widow Lucy was living 
in Gloucester in 1801. Two daughters and a son, aged seven 
years, were living in 1796. 

joJ)n jFotolcs. 

He was b. Watertown, i Feb. 1756; d. there 31 Dec. 1823. 
Lieut, and adjutant in Wigglesworth's (13th) reg. in 1777-78 ; 
in Sullivan's R. L campaign in 17.78 ; com. capt. same reg. 20 
June, 1779; in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783. Selectman of 
Watertown in 1790 and 1792. 

Edmund, his grandfather, was of Newton, m. Mercy , 1718, 

d. 14 Oct. 1726. Edmund, his father, b. Newton, 23 Sept. 1719, 
was a cordwainer of Watertown, m. 1 7 March, i 745, .Abigail Whitney. 

John m. 8 Jan. 178-, Mary Cooke of Newton, and had — 

Charles, b. i Nov. 1782, killed in a duel. 

Harriet, b. 10 Sept. 1784, m. Wm. Smith of Lowell. 

Elizabeth, m. Charles Smith of Quincy. 

Maria, b. 14 Dec. 1787, m. Britten of Oxford, N. H. 

John. 



192 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

JOHN FOWLE. 
Son of Capt. John, whom he succ. in 1824; b.Watertown, 
3 Nov. 1789, killed 25 April, 1838, by the explosion of steamer 
" Moselle" on the Ohio River. Com. 2d lieut. 9th inf. 9 April, 
1812; 1st lieut. April, 181 3; capt. June, 1814, and wounded 
in the battle of Niagara; major 3d inf 4 March, 1833 ; lieut. - 
col. 6th inf. 25 Dec. 1837. Instructor in infantry tactics at 
West Point Military Academy, 1833-38. 

By Pauline Cazenove of Alexandria, D. C, he had a daughter who 
m. Henry F. (Smith) Durant. 

Constant jFrrcman. 

He was bapt. at Charlcstown, Mass., 27 Feb. 1757, and 
entered the Boston Latin School in 1766. Com. lieut. in 
Knox's artillery in 1776; capt. -lieut. in Crane's artillery, i 
Oct. 1778; app. capt. 2d U. S. inf. March, 1791, — declined; 
com. major 1st artillerists and engineers, 28 Feb. 1795 ; lieut.- 
col. 1st artillery, i April, 1802; brevet-col. 10 July, 1812; 
mustered out on reduction of the army, 15 June, 181 5. Ac- 
countant of the Navy Department at Washington, and Fourth 
Auditor from March, 18 16, to his death, 27 Feb. 1824. 

His descent from Samuel^ Freeman of Watertown, 1630, was 
through Samuel^ b. 11 May, 1638, d. Eastham, 30 Jan. 1712, who 
m. 12 May, 1658, Mary, dau. of Constant Southworth ; Constant^ b. 
31 March, 1669, d. 1745, who m. 1 1 Oct. 1694, Jane Treat; Con- 
stant,^ b. 25 March, 1 700, d. 1 759, who m. 20 Oct. 1 726, Ann Larkin ; 
Constant, Jr^ (his father), who m. 23 Sept. 1754, Lois Cobb, and 
had Col. Constant and Rev. James Freeman, D.D. 

CHARLE.S HENRY DAVIS, LLD* 
Grandson of Col. Constant Freeman, whom he succ. in 1843 ; 
was born in Boston, 16 Jan. 1807; d. Washington, D.C., 18 

* This biographical notice is tal;en mainly from a paper written for the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences by Prof. James Mills Peirce, of Har- 
vard University. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 93 

Feb. 1877. His father, Hon. Daniel Davis, was a lawyer 
of distinction, and long Solicitor-General of the State of 
Mass. Daniel Davis had settled first in Portland (then 
Falmouth), but moved to Boston in 1804, and built a house 
which is still standing on Somerset Street, and in which the 
subject of this notice was born. This house is now occupied 
by the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society. 

Charles Henry was educated at the Boston Latin School, 
and entered Harvard College in 1821. He left college two 
years later to enter the United States Navy. His uncle, Col. 
Freeman, was Fourth Auditor of the Treasury at that time; 
and it was through his interest that a midshipman's warrant 
was procured for his nephew, which bore date 12 Aug. 1823. 
Although Davis never graduated at Harvard, the University 
conferred on him in 1841 the degree of A.B., and in 1868 
that of LL.D. ; and his name stands in the triennial catalogue 
in the list of members of the class of 1825. A beautiful win- 
dow in the Memorial Hall in Cambridge commemorates the 
fact that he was the oldest representative of the University 
and the senior in rank who served during the civil war. 

His first cruise in the navy was on board the frigate 
"United States," then on the Pacific station. For the next 
fifteen or twenty years his life was passed in the usual duties 
of his profession. He became passed-midshipman in 1829, 
and lieutenant in 1834. Another cruise in the Pacific, a 
cruise in the West Indies and to the Mediterranean, and ser- 
vice in the Brazils filled the time until about 1840, when he 
took up his residence in Cambridge. During this period of 
his early life his character had formed by reading, reflection, 
and intercourse with the world, and his habits of thought and 
feeling bore ever after deep and pleasant traces of the educa- 
tion of these earlier years. At this first period of leisure from 
the active duties of his profession, Davis undertook a serious 
course of reading, appljing himself particularly to the study 



194 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of mathematics, which he pursued under the guidance of Prof 
Benjamin Peirce, his life-long friend. In 1842 he was ordered 
to duty on the Coast Survey, of which Prof Bache was next 
year appointed superintendent ; and he continued as one of 
the most valued officers of this service until 1849. He in- 
vestigated the velocity and direction of tides and currents in 
New York harbor, in the Gulf Stream, and in the neighbor- 
hood of Nantucket; and the ability which he displayed on 
this work led to his frequent appointment on commissions, 
both then and subsequently, to examine the principal har- 
bors of the country. These researches engaged him in the 
general study of the laws of tidal action, in which he made 
valuable additions to knowledge, and in which he was led to 
the adoption of new and striking views, embodied in his 
•■ Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and 
other Currents of the Ocean" (Mem. Am. Acad., new series, 
vol. iv.) and his " Law of Deposit of the Fl^od Tide" (Smith- 
sonian Contributions, vol. iii.). The object of these publica- 
tions, which have made him known to men of science as a 
hydrographer of learning and skill, was to exhibit the law of 
connection between the currents of the sea and the alluvial 
deposits on its borders and in its depths, and to show that 
this law had contributed in past ages, and is still contributing, 
to the determination and modification of the forms of conti- 
nents. At the same time with the performance of this valu- 
able scientific work, he was rendering service by labors of a 
more directly practical utility. His discovery, between 1846 
and 1849, of dangerous shoals (Davis's New South Shoal, 
etc.) lying in the track of vessels sailing from New York to 
Europe, or from Boston to the West Indian and Southern 
ports, attracted public attention to the value of the Coast 
Survey, which had not then attained the position it now 
holds; and he received special letters of commendation from 
merchants and insurance companies. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 95 

Lieutenant Davis was fietached from the Coast Survey in 
1849 to become the first superintendent of the new " Ameri- 
can Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac," which owed its foun- 
dation directly to his efforts. The following extract from 
a letter of Prof. Bache to the Secretary of the Treasury, 
dated 17 July, 1849, shows the estimation in which he was 
held by his distinguished chief: — 

" The official reports of the progress of the Coast Survey have, 
from time to time, brought the name and services of Lieutenant 
Davis very prominently before the Department as marked by all the 
qualities which insure distinction in such a work. The loss of his 
services will be deeply felt ... In parting with this most valued 
officer for a field of duty alike honorable to him and useful to the 
country, I desire to place on the records of the Treasury Depart- 
ment the strongest expression of my sense of his merits in the 
career which he leaves." 

Lieutenant Davis rendered important benefits to the coun- 
try in the successful organization and conduct of the " Nautical 
Almanac." The work was placed on a higher plane than the 
" British Nautical Almanac " which had heretofore been used 
in this country. The first volume appeared in 1852, and was 
favorably received on both sides of the Atlantic ; and it may 
safely be said that with the exception of the Coast Survey, 
no scientific work inaugurated in this country has redounded 
more largely to the national credit. In the work of the of- 
fice there was a freedom from the irksome restraints of disci- 
pline which, though it might work badly under other circum- 
stances, was very favorable to the development of a school of 
mathematicians. Besides men like Peirce and Walker, who 
had attained eminence before becoming connected with the 
office, the names of President Runkle, Professors Winlock and 
Newcomb (the present Superintendent), Chauncey Wright, 
and William Terrel may be cited as representatives of the 



196 BIOGRAPHICAL NUTICES OF THE 

men who were first brought out through their connection 
with the " Nautical Almanac." 

In 1854 Davis was promoted to the rank of commander, 
and in 1857 he published an English translation of Gauss's 
" Theoria Motiis Corporum Coelestium," which has remained 
a standard edition among astronomers and mathematicians. 

Commander Davis's period of superintendency of the 
" Nautical Almanac " was interrupted by a three years' cruise 
in the Pacific, in command of the sloop-of-war " St. Mary's." 
During this cruise he made investigations of the guano deposits 
among certain of the remote Pacific islands, and in 1857 he 
gave striking proof of the independent decision of character 
and willingness to assume responsibility for which he was 
ever distinguished in the service. William Walker, an Ameri- 
can adventurer and filibuster, had invaded Nicaragua with a 
small army of followers, and had been elected president in 
June, 1856. His arbitrary acts provoked a domestic insurrec- 
tion, seconded by several surrounding States and by agents 
of the Vanderbilt company whose route of transit across the 
isthmus had been broken up by Walker. Walker was de- 
feated in several battles, and finally besieged in Rivas by a 
greatly superior force. The " St. Mary's " had been sent to 
the coast to watch events ; and Commander Davis, acting on 
his own responsibility, and without explicit instructions from 
the commander-in-chief of the squadron, marched to Rivas 
with the ship's company of the " St. Mary's," raised the siege, 
and accepted the surrender of Walker, conveying him to 
Panama. This step saved many lives and prevented serious 
complications, and was fully approved by the United States 
government. 

In 1861, on the outbreak of the civil war, Commander 
Davis's connection with the "Nautical Almanac" ceased, and 
he was called to Washington. His knowledge of the coast and 
particularly of the Southern harbors, many of which he had 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1 97 

examined while serving on various liarbor commissions, made 
his services of peculiar value to the government. He served 
as member of a board organized to inquire into and report on 
the condition of the Southern coast with a view to offensive 
naval operations on the part of the United States. This in- 
quiry led to the organization of the fleet which was placed 
under the command of Flag-Officer Du Pont, and of which 
Davis was fleet captain and chief of staff. The first bril- 
liant naval achievement of the war was the reduction and cap- 
ture of Port Royal. Davis was prominently engaged in both 
the planning and execution of this great action, in which two 
strong forts, fully manned and mounting forty-three guns of 
heavy calibre, yielded after four hours' action with the fleet. In 
Flag-Officer Du Pont's official report of 1 1 Nov. 1861, he says 
of Commander Davis : — 

" In the organization of our large fleet before sailing, and in the 
preparation and systematic arrangement of the details of our con- 
templated work — in short, in all the duties pertaining to the flag- 
officer — I received his most valuable assistance. He possesses the 
rare quality of being a man of science and a practical officer, keep- 
ing the love of science subordinate to the regular duties of his pro- 
fession. During the action he watched over the movements of the 
fleet, kept the official minutes, and evinced that calmness In danger 
which, to my knowledge for thirty years, has been a conspicuous 
trait in his character." 

While still fleet-captain, Davis served in placing obstruc- 
tions to the entrance to Charleston harbor; and in May, 1862, 
he was appointed flag-officer of the Mississippi Flotilla, re- 
lieving Flag-Officer A. H. Foote. He assumed command of 
the flotilla off Fort Pillow; and a day or two later he, with 
seven vessels, beat off a squadron of eight iron-clads which 
had steamed up the river to attack him. The action was a 
spirited one, and lasted nearly an hour. Three of the enemy's 
vessels were disabled, but avoided capture under the guns of 



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Fort Pillow. On 5 June Fort Pillow was abandoned by the 
Confederates, and on the 6th Davis steamed down the river 
and brought on a general action with the enemy's fleet of 
iron-clads and rams opposite Memphis. The action was a 
spirited and brilliant one, and resulted in the capture and 
destruction of all the Confederate vessels but one, and the 
surrender of Memphis. Davis then joined Farragut, and was 
engaged in various operations near Vicksburg and in the 
Yazoo River until September, when he was forced through ill 
health to relinquish his command. 

In this year (1862) the Bureau of Navigation was estab- 
lished in the Navy Department, and Davis became its first 
chief. In 1863 he received the thanks of Congress, and was 
promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, for his services on the 
Mississippi. At the close of the war, in 1865. he became 
Superintendent of the Naval Observatory at Washington, 
and in 1866, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, 
prepared a valuable " Report on Interoceanic Railways and 
Canals," which was revised and reprinted in 1870, and which 
has formed the basis of instructions for subsequent surveys of 
Isthmian routes. 

In 1867 Admiral Davis embarked for his last cruise, in 
command of the naval forces on the South Atlantic station, 
and hoisted his flag on board the new frigate " Guerriere," a 
magnificent vessel of an advanced type of naval architecture. 
In 1868, while still in command of the South Atlantic squad- 
ron, he became involved in an unpleasant controversy with 
the United States ministers to Brazil and Paraguay, growing 
out of the war existing in Paraguay, then subject to the 
dictatorship of Lopez. Without going into details which 
would occupy more space than can be given here, it is suf- 
ficient to state that in this affair Admiral Davis's reputation 
suff"ered nothing in the service nor among those outside who 
fully understood the merits of the case. But his enemies. 



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although they failed in their attack on his professional repu- 
tation, were hardly capable of realizing the extent of their 
success in imbittering the closing years of his active career. 
His sensitive and generous nature shrank from the coarseness 
and virulence of this personal controversy. 

Admiral Davis returned from South America in 1869, and 
was for several years commandant of the Navy Yard at Nor- 
folk. In the winter of 1 873-74 he was again appointed Super- 
intendent of the Naval Observatory, in time to take part, as 
chairman of the Transit of Venus Commission, in completing 
the preparations for the expeditions of 1874. In 1874-75 
Congress made appropriations for printing the records of the 
"Polaris" expedition to the Arctic seas, commanded by the 
late Capt. C. F. Hall ; and Admiral Davis was asked to take 
charge of the work. The " Narrative of the North Polar 
Expedition," his last work, was published in 1876. The 
government had purchased the whole of Hall's journals and 
records; and a second volume, which was to contain the story 
of Hall's former expeditions, was begun. The summer of 
1876 in Washington was an unusually hot and unhealthy 
season. Admiral Davis's health had been failing for some 
time, but he worked faithfully and with great interest on the 
" Narrative " through the whole summer, and was engaged 
on the second volume up to within four days of his death. 
In November he was member of a board to visit the site for 
a naval station at Port Royal. On his return from this, his 
last active duty, his health failed rapidly, and he died at the 
Observatory in Washington. He was buried on the banks of 
the Charles River, in the Cambridge Cemetery, within sight 
of the city of his home. His dear friend Benjamin Peirce 
has since been laid by his side. 

In character he was singularly true, sincere, and simple. 
" He was an admirable officer. He had the true spirit of 
command, — strong, dignified, and quiet; and one that, not 



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needing artificial support, was accompanied by a thoroughly 
friendly relation with his officers and men. He was a charm- 
ing companion, abounding to the last in a natural freshness 
and gayety of spirit ; and he had one of the most honorable, 
upright, true, generous, and gentle hearts that ever beat." 

At the annual meeting of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati, 
4 July, 1877, Rev. Dr. Lothrop spoke feehngly of the death 
of Rear-Admiral Davis, and offered resolutions, which were 
unanimously adopted by a rising vote, stating that the Society 
held his memory in profound and grateful respect; that it 
honored him for his large scientific attainments and labors, 
for his skill, bravery, and gallant bearing as a naval com- 
mander, and for his thorough devotion of his talents and 
energy at all times, in peace and in war, to the best interests 
of his country and the progress of mankind. 

His descent from Robert^ Davis of Barnstable, 1638, was through 
y^ij'?//;," b. Barnstable, 1662, d. Barnstable, 1729, whom. Hannah 
Cobb, dau. of Elder Henry Cobb of Plymouth, March, 1695 ; Daniel^ 
b. Barnstable, 28 Sept. 1713, d. Barnstable, 22 April, 1799, m. (2d) 
Mehitable Sturgis, wid. of John Sturgis and dau. of Josiah Davis, 7 
July, 1761 ; Daniel^ (his father), b. Barnstable, 8 May, 1762, d. 
Cambridge, 27 Oct. 1835, m. Lois Freeman, dau. of Col. Constant 
Freeman, 7 March, 1786. 

Charles Henry was m. in 1842 to Harriet Blake, dau. of Hon. 
Elijah Hunt Mills of Northampton, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. 
His widow survives him. There were six children. The oldest son, 
Constant Freeman, a young man of great promise, and whose char- 
acter closely resembled that of his father, d. in 1867 in Brazil, whither 
he had gone in search of health. He graduated at Harvard in the 
class of 1864. The second son, Charles Henry, is a member of 
the Society, and is noticed below. The third son, Frank Du Pont, 
graduated at Harvard in 1870, was successful as a banker in New 
York until his health failed, and d. at Nice in 1879. Of the three 
daughters, all living, one is the wife of Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge 
of Massachusetts ; the second is m. to Brooks Adams, Esq., of 
Boston, and the third to J. D. Henley Luce, Esq., of Boston. 



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CHARLES HENRY DAVIS. 

Son of Admiral Davis, whom he succ. in 1 880; was b. 
Cambridge, Mass., 28 Aug. 1845. He was educated at the 
U. S. Naval Academy; app. acting midshipman, 29 Nov. 
1861 ; midshipman, 12 July, 1862; ensign, i Nov. 1866; 
master, i Dec. 1866; lieut., 12 March, 1868; lieut.-com- 
mander, 30 June, 1869; commander, 30 Oct. 1885. At this 
date (1890), stationed in Washington at the Office of Naval 
Intelligence, Navy Department. 

He ID. 31 March, 1875, Louisa Maria, dau. of John Van Pelt 
Quackenbush, M.D., of Albany. Children — 
Elizabeth, b. 14 Jan. 187S. 
Charles Henry, b. 23 April, 1885. 
D.ANIEL, b. 20 Nov. 1886. 

STljomas Habis jFrccman. 

Son of David and Abigail (Davis) Freeman ; b. Barnstable, 
Mass., 25 March, 1757. Com. ensign in Bradford's (14th) 
reg. 31 Jan. 1777; lieut. i April, 1778; in Brooks's (7th) 
reg. in 1783. 

Grandson and legatee of Mrs. Bethia Gorham, of Barnstable, 
widow. His mother, a widow, was appointed his guardian, 1 1 July, 
1769. Her will, 18 Sept. 1788, gives to her sister Lucy Garrett, 
and to Sarah, \vife of Isaiah Parker, all her property, in case her son 
T. D. Freeman does not return. 

Samuel jFtinfe. 

He was the son of Dr. John, and grandson of Rev. Thomas 
Frink, the first ordained minister of Rutland, Mass., and was 
b. there in 1763. Entering the army in 1780, he was com. 
ensign in M Jackson's (8th) reg. 5 July, 1782, and d. Paxton, 
Mass., 1846. 



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He m. 1790, Ester Nichols of Carlisle, and had — 
John Adams, Kennebec, Me., b. 1809, resides in Paxton, Mass. 
Isabella, Rutland, Mass., b. 18 15, m. Ebenezer Parker, and re- 
sides in Holden, Mass. 
Alice, b. 181 8. 
Samuel, b. 1820. 

Samuel iFrost. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 13 July, 1752; d. there i 
Nov. 181 7. Entered the army in 1776; com. lieut. in Nixon's 
(6th) reg. i Jan. 1777; lieut. and adjutant, 1778-79; adjutant 
and paymaster, 1780-81, continuing in the latter capacity 
until 1784; com. capt. 12 Oct. 1782. He was for four years 
a Selectman of Framingham and a Trustee of the Framing- 
ham Academy. 

His descent from Thomas ' Frost, of Sudbury, who m. 1 2 Nov. 
1668, Mary Goodridge, was through Samuel^ b. 23 Nov. 1686, d. 2 
Aug. 1736, who m. I Feb. 1710-11, Elizabeth Rice; SamueP (\\\% 
father), b. 13 Dec. 17 15, d. 12 March, 1799, who m. 19 June, 1750, 
Rebeckah How. He m. 3 Sept. 1787, Mary Heard of Wayland. 
They had — 

Sarah, b. 28 Dec. 1788, m. in 1809, Thos. Arnold. 

REBECiciH, b. 28 April, 1 791, d. ae. 38. 

Mary, b. 25 April, 1793, m. Chapin Allen. 

Abigail, b. 4 April, 1795. 

Clarissa, b. 23 May, 1797, m. Henry How of Sudbury. 

Hannah, b. 15 .'\ug. 1799. 

Harriet, b. 17 Feb. 1802, m. Reuben Hunt. 

Eliza, b. 12 Oct. 1804, m. Ransom, lives in Maine. 

Julia Ann, b. 12 March, 1S07, m. Joseph Taylor of Kennebunk. 

SAMUEL FROST ARNOLD. 

Son of Thomas Arnold and Sally, eldest dau. of Capt. 
Samuel Frost, whom he succ. in 1833. He was. b. Framing- 
ham, Mass., 28 Jan. 1813, and d. 2 Nov. 1835. 



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LEONARD ARNOLD. 

Brother of Samuel Frost Arnold, whom he succ. in 184 1. 
He was b. in Framingham, 2i July, 1817; resides in Somer- 
ville, and 25 Oct. 1842, m. Irene G. Clarke, by whom he 
had — 

L. Frank, b. 4 Sept. 1845, accountant, m. 25 Oct. 1877, Lilla E., 

dau. of Leonard Poole. 
Irene Adelaide, b. 19 Nov. 1850, d. 21 June, 1854. 

JJcnjamin iFrotijtiiflijam. 

He was b. Boston, Mass., 6 April, 1734; d. Charlestown, 
Mass., 19 Aug. 1809. He was a cabinet-maker; served in 
Gridley's artillery in the war of 1756-63, and was a capt.-lieut. 
in his reg. in 1775, and in Kno.x's in 1776; com. capt. in 
Crane's artillery, i Jan. 1777; served through the whole war; 
was wounded at Germantown. 

He was the son of Benjamin and Mary (Edwards) Frothingham, 
and m. 4 May, 1762, Mary, dau. of John and Judith (Upham) 
Deland. They had — 

Mary, b. 17 Feb. 1763, d. unm. 22 Oct. 1829. 

Esther, b. 17 Dec. 1764, d. 1765. 

Elizabeth, b. 22 Feb. 1767, d. young. 

Esther, b. 7 Jan. 1770, m. Rev. Daniel Emerson of HoUis, d. 14 
March, 1849. 

Sarah, b. 19 July, 1772, m. Seth Sweetser of Newburyport. 

Benjamin, bapt. 3 April, 1774, d. i Oct. 1775. 

Benjamin. 

Hannah, d. 23 Aug. 1830, je. 51. 

BENJAMIN FROTHINGHAM. 

Eldest son of Benjamin, whom he succ. in 1826; b. Charles- 
town ; d. there Aug. 1832, se. 56, unm. He was a cabinet- 
m:iker. 



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jFretJcritfe iFffit. 

He was b. Andover, 9 June, 1760; d. a pensioner in N. Y. 
City, 30 Jan. 1828. Com. ensign in Vose's (ist) reg. i Feb. 
1781,10 3 Nov. 1783 ; capt. ist U. S. artillerists and engineers, 
2 June, 1 794-1 June, 1802. Daniel M. Frye, his son, was 
admitted a member of the N. Y. Society in 1836, on condition 
of his paying " into the funds of the Society one month's 
pay, upon the rank held by his father in the Continental 
army previous to its dissolution." He d. in 1859, without 
complying with the condition. His son Frederick was ad- 
mitted into the N. Y. Society, apparently without conditions, 
in 1859. He d. in 1881 ; and his widow, a resident of New 
Orleans, applied in 1882 for aid from the Mass. Society. It 
was at first refused (under the rule of 1862), but subse- 
quently allowed. 

Son oi John, of Andover, m. 9 June, 1789, Margaret, dau. of 
Capt. Daniel Mackay. They had: Margaret O., b. 1798, who 
m. Forman ; and Daniel Mackay, who joined the N. Y. So- 
ciety in 1836, and was succ. by his son Frederick on his decease, 
8 Feb. 1859. 

JJoljn jFuUrr. 

Of Sherborn, Rutland County, Vt. ; living in 1820. Lieut, 
in Bradford's (14th) reg.; com. capt. 16 April, 1780; in H. 
Jackson's (4th) reg. in 1783. 



Sames ©artrncr. 

Conductor in Knox's artillery reg. in 1776; lieut. and ad- 
jutant in Crane's artillery, 1777; com. capt.-lieut. 22 Feb. 

1780. 



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^ntJrtto Gffarrttt. 

Of Barnstable, where he was a pensioner; living in 1820. 
Ensign in Brooks's (7th) reg. in 1780; com. licut. 25 Oct. 
1781 ; in 6th reg. 1783. 

"Richard Garrett of Barnstable m. in 1721, Elizabeth Stevens 
of Rochester, Mass., and had Andrew, h. 12 Oct. 1723, who in 1753 
m. Temperance Parker. The latter I suppose to be the parents of 
Lieut. A. G." — Letter of Rev. Frederick Freeman. 

Joljn ©corflf. 

He was b. Braintree, Mass., 175 1; d. Watertown, Mass., 
22 Jan. 1820. He was said to be one of those who helped to 
destroy the tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 ;* com. ensign in 
Gardner's, afterward Bond's (25th) reg. May, 1775 ; 2d lieut. 
Jan. 1776; 1st lieut. April, 1776; ist lieut. Crane's artillery, 
I Jan. 1777; capt. -lieut. i Oct. 1778. He served from the 
beginning to the close of the war; was present at the siege 
of Boston ; was instrumental in saving the boats and baggage 
of Sullivan's retreating army at Chambly, 15 June, 1776, and 
in protecting the rear; and was wounded in the leg, at the 
defence of Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware, in Nov. 1777, by a 
ball from the "Augusta." He suffered severely from this 
wound, and finally died from its effects. Capt George was 
a faithful soldier; so much so as to acquire from his com- 
rades the sobriquet of " Captain Particular." He was a de- 
voted patriot, a man of high moral character, and a finished 
gentleman. 

After the war he, with Capt. Thomas Vose and Major 
Daniel Jackson, engaged in business in Watertown, in which 
he continued until his death. 

* His name does not appear, however. In the list printed in the collection of 
letters and documents relating to the subject. 



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He was the son of John George and Phipps, and m. 29 Oct. 

1787, Margaret, dau. of Capt. VVm. Main, of Charleston, S. C. She 
d. Thomaston, Me., 8 Sept. 1854, se. 95. They had — 
WiLLL«i Main, b. 29 Oct. 1 789, lost at sea. 
John, Jr., b. 2 July, 1791, d. 9 July, 1833. 
Sarah Main, b. 2 Dec. 1792, m. 28 Oct. 1819, Ch. Merrill of 

Thomaston. 
Marianne, b. 2 Sept. 1794, m. 30 Sept. 1822, John O'Brien of 

Thomaston, Me., d. 23 Sept. 1870. 
Lucy Jones, b. 10 Sept. 1796, m. Clinton Thayer of Watertown, 

d. 18 June, 1821. 
Margaret, b. 16 March, 1S03, m. 1S24, Hon. John Ruggles of 

Thomaston. 

EDWARD KAVANAGH O'BRIEN. 

Son of Hon. John O'Brien, and grandson of Capt. John 
George, whom he succ. in 1880; was b. Thomaston, Me., 3 
Feb. 1833. I^s has been since 1855 a member of the firm 
of Burgess, O'Brien, & Co., merchants, lime-manufacturers, 
and shipbuilders. He was a member of the Maine Senate, 
1868 and 1869; Democratic candidate for Congress in 1874 
and 1876; for several years a member of the Democratic 
State Committee ; a member of the Maine House of Repre- 
sentatives, 1888 to 1891 ; a member of the Legislative Com- 
mittee to attend the Centennial of the Inauguration of Wash- 
ington, at New York, in 1889; Trustee of the Thomaston 
Savings Bank from its organization ; Trustee of the " Ed- 
ward O'Brien Church Fund," created in 1878 by his uncle 
the late Hon. Edward O'Brien (a large shipbuilder and ship- 
owner, who was distinguished for his enterprise, integrity, 
and philanthropy) ; and a Director in the Knox & Lincoln 
Railroad Co. for several years. 

He m. 2 .-Xpril, 1856, Elvira O., dau. of \\'m. O. Masters. She d. 
6 June, 1 88 1. No children. 



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Of Rhode Island; d. Chailestown, Mass., 6 Nov. 1818, 
EC. 68. Com. adjutantof Glover's (14th) reg. i Jan. 1776; capt. 
12 March, 1776; major, 29 July, 1778; commandant of Wash- 
ington's body-guard, 1776-791 in Sprout's (2d) reg. in 1782- 
83 ; slightly wounded at the capture of one of the British 
redoubts at Yorktown. In 1798 Gen. Knox recommended 
him for lieut.-col.-commandant of a regiment about being 
raised, saying, " No officer of the late American army would 
discipline and command a regiment with better effect." 

He m. Jan. 1787, Catharine, dau. of Stephen Hall of Boston. 
A dau. Catharine N. m. A. C. Park. 

ALEXANDER HAMILTON GIBBS. 

Eldest son of Major Caleb, whom he succ. in 18 19. He 
was b. Boston, 2 Aug. 1791 ; vvas a merchant of Roxbury ; 
capt. of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. in 1823; and 
d. 5 March, 1827. 

IStniamin dRUfitKt 

He was probably the son of Capt. Daniel of Brookfield, 
Mass., and was b. 31 May, 1755. He was ensign in Putnam's 
(5th) reg.; com. lieut. 17 April, 1782.* 

Watljan (ffiooTialE. 

He was b. Brookfield, Mass., 11 Nov. 1744. His early 
years were spent upon a farm in Rutland, where he also 
learned the trade of a brick-mason, thus laying the founda- 
tion for a vigorous, muscular frame, which enabled him in 
after years to undergo the fatigues and hardships to which he 

* The Benjamin Gilbert who joined the N. Y. .Society of the Cincinnati was 
another person. 



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was exposed. About 1771 he removed with his wife and 
three children to Brookheld, where he purchased a farm, 
upon which he resided when the war of the Revolution 
began. He had taken an active part in the organization of 
the volunteer " minute-men " of that day, and was one of the 
first after the Lexington fight to join the army around Bos- 
ton. In July -Nov. 1775, he was a lieut. in David Brewer's 
reg. stationed at Roxbury. On 15 March, 1776, he was com. 
a 1st lieut. in Bond's (_2Sth) reg., which, in April following, 
he accompanied to New York, where he was detached for 
service in the engineer department under Lieut.-Col. Rufus 
Putnam, while his regiment proceeded to take part in the 
invasion of Canada. Employed in constructing works to pro- 
tect New York, he took part also in the other operations for 
its defence. He was com. capt. i Jan. 1777, in Rufus Putnam's 
(5th) reg., with which he joined the army of Gen. Gates, near 
Stillwater, N. Y., then opposing the invasion of Gen. Bur- 
goyne. The woods being filled with hostile savages, no infor- 
mation could be obtained respecting the enemy until Capt. 
Goodale voluntarily undertook to perform this hazardous 
duty, in which he succeeded perfectly, having penetrated the 
hostile camp and brought off si.x prisoners, besides gaining 
the desired information. His success induced Gen. Gates to 
continue him in this kind of duty, in which he had, before 
the surrender of Burgoyne, captured 121 prisoners from the 
enemy. In the battle of 7 Oct. at Saratoga, Putnam's regi- 
ment was prominently engaged. Toward the close of the 
action, the 5th and 6th regiments, under the command of 
Putnam, stormed in front the redoubt which was in ad\ance of 
the extreme right of the British line, and which was occupied 
by the German troops of Col. Breyman, at the same moment 
that Learned's brigade, in which was Jackson's (8th) reg., 
led by Lieut.-Col. Brooks, entered on its left and rear. Bur- 
goyne having made a retrograde movement after the battle, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 2O9 

a pursuit was ordered by Gen. Gates ; Capt. Goodale, with a 
party of volunteers, leading the advance. It was soon found 
that the enemy was strongly posted, instead of being on the 
retreat; and the troops were recalled, not, however, until 
Capt. Goodale had captured an advanced party of the Brit- 
ish, consisting of one officer and thirty-five men. Before 
retreating a party of volunteers cut adrift some boats loaded 
with Burgoyne's stores, which were tied to the right bank 
of the Hudson. This bold act " was accomplished chiefly 
through the fearless activity of Capt. Goodale, who was 
noted for daring exploits." On 17 Oct. Burgoyne surren- 
dered. In the spring and summer of 1778 Capt. Goodale 
was engaged with his command at West Point in the con- 
struction of Fort Putnam, named after the colonel of his 
regiment. In the latter part of August, 1778, he was or- 
dered to hold an important point near Valentine's Hill, an 
advanced position of the force under Gen. Charles Scott, who 
watched the British outposts near King's Bridge, N. Y. Here 
he was attacked on the 30th by an ovenvhelming force under 
Lieut. -Cols. Simcoe and Emmerick ; and after a brave and 
determined resistance, prolonged until two thirds of his small 
party were slain or disabled, he was wounded and taken pris- 
oner. After his return home, in the latter part of 1780, he 
suffered from a long sickness, no doubt induced by the horri- 
ble prison life to which he had been subjected. After recov- 
ering, he continued in service throughout the war, and became 
entitled to half-pay, commutation, and bounty land ; but failed 
to receive the promotion to which his important services and 
his sufferings fully entitled him, holding the rank of major 
by brevet only. After the war, he bought a farm in Brook- 
field, and was remarkable for his industry and skill in its 
management. This he sold, however, early in 1788, on asso- 
ciating himself with " The Ohio Company," and removed 
with his family to Marietta, whence he went in April, 1789, to 
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2IO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Belpre. His removal to Ohio was performed in a novel man- 
ner, the wagon containing his household goods and part of 
his family being drawn by a team composed of three cows 
and a bull, which he had previously trained to work together, 
and with which the journey was performed with ease and in 
as short a time as it could have been with oxen. This stock, 
which he had carefully selected, afterward became highly 
celebrated in southeastern Ohio, where it was known as the 
" Goodale breed." 

Soon after his arrival, in Aug. 1788, he was appointed by 
Gov. St. Clair a captain of light infantry ; and on the erection 
at Belpre, in 1790, of a stockaded fort to protect the settlers 
from the Indians, this work, which was called the " Farmer's 
Castle," was placed under his command. The fort having be- 
come overcrowded, early in 1793 a palisaded work containing 
two block-houses was built about a mile below it, called 
" Goodale's Garrison," in which he placed his family about 
20 Feb. 1793. On i March, while at work in a clearing about 
forty or fifty rods from the garrison, he was surprised and car- 
ried off captive by a party of Indians. His fate was not known 
until years afterward, when three Indians who had belonged 
to the party informed Col. Meeker at Detroit that they had 
seized, gagged, and carried off a man whose description 
exactly answered that of Major Goodale. They intended to 
take him to Detroit and get a large ransom for him ; but 
somewhere, on the Miami or at Sandusky, he fell sick and 
died. This was a severe blow to his family, and also to the 
little isolated community of which he was the life and soul. 
" His memory," says Judge Barker, one of the early colonists, 
" was for many years fresh and green in the hearts of his con- 
temporary pioneers, and is still cherished with respect and 
affection by their descendants." 

His descent from Robert'^ Goodak, b. England, 1603-4, who with 
his wife Katherine left Ipswich, Eng., Ajiril, 1634, and settled in 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 2 I I 

Salem, was through Zachariah- b. Salem, 1639, who m. Elizabeth, 
dau. of Edward and Mary Beauchamp ; John,' b. 10 Aug. 168 1, 
went to Marlborough, Mass., ab. 1702, d. 11 May, 1752, who m. 8 
Sept. 1703, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Baker) Witt of 
Lynn, who d. 29 July, 1738; Solomon* (his father), b. 24 May, 
1707, d. 1744-45, who m. 18 May, 1732, Anna, widow of Samuel 
Walker, dau. of John and Hannah (Corliss) Hinds. 

Nathan m. 11 Sept. 1765, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Susannah 
(Gates) Phelps of Rutland (b. i .April, 1743, d. Franklinton, O., 24 
Jan. 1809). They had^ 

Sarah, b. 28 May, 1766, d. May, i8i8,ra. 1788, Cornelius Delano 
of Massachusetts. He was b. 15 Aug. 1764, and d. June, 1824. 
Samuel, b. i Feb. 1768, d. 23 Dec. 1770. 
Timothy Ware, b. 21 Feb. 1770, d. 7 Jan. 1796, s. p. 
Elizabeth, b. 7 Oct. 1772, d. 2 .Aug. 1830, m. 25 Oct. 1789, 
Wanton Casey, Esq., of Rhode Island. He was b. 24 Feb. 
1760, and d. 17 Dec. 1842. 
Cynthl\, b. 31 July, 1774, d. 3 March, 1861, m. (ist) 1793 (?) 
Dr. Samuel Barnes of Massachusetts; m. (2d) 8 June, 1808, 
Hon. James Kilboume, who d. 24 April, 1850. 
Susanna, b. 13 Nov. 1778, d. 19 Aug. 1828, m. March, 1804, 
Hezekiah Smith of Connecticut. He was b. 6 April, 1776, and 
d. 4 Jan. 1842. 
Lincoln, b. 25 Feb. 1782, d. 30 April, 1868, s. p. 
Theodosu, b. 25 Feb. 1785, d. 6 April, 1832, m. 6 April, 1806, 
Thomas Swearingen of Virginia. He was b. 19 Dec. 1779, 
and d. 29 Sept. 1863. 
Lauretta, b. 25 Dec. 1787, d. 15 Nov. 1793. 

LL\COLN GOODALE, M.D. 

Only son of Capt. Nathan, whom he succ. in 1830; was 
b. Brookfield, Mass., 25 Feb. 1782; d. Columbus, O., 30 
April, 1868. He was taken by his father to the mouth of 
the Muskingum, O., 9 Aug. 1788, being then in his seventh 
year. His residence during youth and early manhood was 
at Marietta and Belpr^, O., where he received a common- 
school education, and studied medicine and surgery under 



212 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Dr. Leonard Jewctt of the latter place. In 1805 he moved to 
Franklinton, in Franklin Co., O., and began the practice of 
his profession. In 181 2, before the declaration of war with 
Great Britain, he volunteered for service in the army, and 
was appointed by Gov. Return Jonathan Meigs surgeon's 
mate in Col. Duncan McArthur's regiment. He participated 
in the operations against Detroit, was taken prisoner at Hull's 
surrender, and sent to Maiden, where he attended a number 
of our wounded soldiers, performed several surgical opera- 
tions, and took the convalescents, as soon as they were re- 
leased, to Cleveland, O. He returned to Franklinton in 
October, 181 2. Here, in addition to the practice of medi- 
cine, he entered into mercantile business, opening a store for 
drugs and general merchandise. In 1 8 14 Dr. Goodale re- 
moved from Franklinton to Columbus, on the opposite bank 
of the Scioto, about this time accepted as the permanent lo- 
cation of the State government. He enlarged his business, 
and gradually gave up the practice of medicine. He was 
closely identified with the interests of Franklin County and 
of Columbus ; filled the position of county recorder, and for 
three years (1821-23) was one of the nine trustees of the 
borough of Columbus. He was untiring in his efforts to 
build up the material interests of Columbus ; and although 
he accumulated a large fortune, was noted for his hospitali- 
ties, his liberality, and his charities. In 1888 a bronze bust 
of Dr. Goodale, by J. O. A. Ward, was erected in Goodale 
Park, Columbus, — a beautiful piece of ground, forty acres in 
extent, given to the city by Dr. Goodale in 1851. He d. unm. 
in 1868, honored and regretted by the entire community. 

SILAS CASEY. 

Son of Elizabeth (Goodale) and Wanton Casey, and nephew 
of Dr. Lincoln Goodale, whom he succ. in 1870; was b. in 
East Greenwich, R. I., 12 July, 1807; d. Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 






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Jan. 1883. His grandfather, Silas, an extensive importing 
merchant before the Revolution, and his father. Wanton, who 
was educated in France during P'ranklin's residence there, 
were natives of East Greenwich. In his youth he was cele- 
brated for adventurous feats ; was educated at the academy 
in his native town and at West Point; and on graduating, 
I July, 1826, was app. brevet 2d lieut. in the 7th inf , stationed 
at Fort Towson, Ark. While here he led a small party in a 
successful skirmish with some marauding Indians, whom he 
surprised and defeated with loss. His subsequent commis- 
sions are as follows: 2d lieut. 2d inf, 1829; assist, com- 
missary subsistence, Feb. 1836; ist lieut. June, 1836; capt. 
July, 1839; brevet-major for Contreras and Churubusco, 20 
Aug. 1847; brevet-lieut.-col. for Chapultepec, 13 Sept. 1847; 
lieut.-col. 9th inf. 3 March, 1855 ; brig.-gen. of vols. 31 Aug. 
1861 ; col. 4th inf. 9 Oct. 1861 ; brcvet-brig.-gen. U. S. A., 
and maj.-gen. vols, for Fair Oaks, 31 May, 1862; brevet- 
maj.-gen. U. S. A. 13 March, 1865, for gallant and meritorious 
services during the Rebellion. 

During the Florida war he was app. capt. in a reg. of 
Creek Indian vols. He rejoined his company in Jan. 1840; 
and having distinguished himself in the battle of Pilaklikaha 
(19 April, 1842), was recommended by Col. Worth, his com- 
mander, for the brevet of major. He was actively engaged 
in Mexico in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco ; and 
at the storming of the Castle of Chapultepec, while leading 
his men through a terrible fire, was severely wounded in 
the abdomen when near the Mexican batteries, a wound 
which confined him to his bed for a month. For his ser- 
vices and conduct in the war with Mexico, he received a 
beautiful silver vase from the inhabitants of his native town, 
and a resolution of thanks from the Legislature of Rhode 
Island. In Nov. 1851, while stationed in California, Casey 
attacked and defeated the Coquille River Indians, whom 
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214 UIOGRAl'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

In 1854 he was president of a board of officers which cor- 
rected and revised Hardee's hght infantry tactics, and also 
of that which adopted a manual for Colt's revolver pistol. 
In March, 1856, Lieut. -Col. Casey, in a campaign of twenty- 
five days, completely subdued the Puget Sound Indians in 
Washington Territory. Pending the controversy between 
the United States and the British Government respecting 
the boundaries of each in that territory, Lieut.-Col. Casey, 
in obedience to orders, occupied and fortified San Juan 
Island, which place was, by agreement between Gen. Scott 
and the British authorities, afterward occupied jointly by the 
two nations. This question was finally settled in favor of the 
United States by the arbitration of the Emperor of Germany. 

On arriving in New York, in Aug. 1861, he repaired to 
Washington, offered his services to the Government in sup- 
pressing the Rebellion, and was assigned to the duty of 
organizing into brigades, disciplining, and instructing the 
volunteer troops arriving there. On 20 March, 1862, he 
was assigned to the command of a division in the army of 
the Potomac, and accompanied it under Gen. McClellan to 
the Peninsula. Having been, contrary to his advice and 
opinion, ordered to Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), where his di- 
vision was within six miles of Richmond, without support on 
either flank, — " pushed like a wedge into the presence of the 
enemy," — he commenced work energetically, digging rifle- 
pits and cutting abatis, to strengthen as much as possible his 
false position. Here, on 31 May, Casey was attacked by an 
overwhelming force under Gens. Longstreet and Hill ; and 
after a severe conflict of three hours, was driven from his 
position, with a loss of 1,430 in killed, wounded, and missing, 
out of a total force of less than 5,000 men. Says an e}e- 
witness: "The veteran warrior Casey had been in the thick- 
est of the fight, directing and animating; . . . and nearly 
one third of his command had found a soldier's death, or 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 215 

Besides his promotion, Gen. Casey received the thanks of 
the Legislature of his native State for his bravery and skill in 
this battle. On 30 June he was relieved from the command 
of his division by Gen. McClellan, and ordered to the White 
House on the Pamunkey, where he successfully performed 
the duty of evacuating that depot, destroying those supplies 
that could not be taken away. On 11 Aug. he was again 
placed on duty to receive, organize; and instruct the volun- 
teers arriving at Washington ; and on this date the system of 
tactics for the U. S. army by Casey was adopted by the Gov- 
ernment. During his period of duty in Washington, Gen. 
Casey equipped, organized, and in a preliminary manner in- 
structed about 300,000 volunteer troops, — a service of great 
importance to the country, admirably performed. He was in 
July, 1868, retired, at his own request, after active service 
for forty-two years, and resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., until his 
death. 

His descent from Thomas'^ and Sarah Casey of Newport, R. I., 
abt. 1658, was through. y4^/i2/« ^ of Newport, R. I., b. abt. 1667, d. 
April, 1765, m. 8 March, 1706, Mary, dau. of Edward and Mary 
Greenman of Newport; Thomas^ of East Greenwich, R. I., b. 18 
Nov. 1706, d. 20 April, 1797, m. 22 Nov. 1728, Comfort, dau. of 
Thomas and Sarah Langford of East Greenwich, R. I. ; Silas * of 
East Greenwich, R. I., b. 5 June, 1734, d. 27 Sept. 1814, m. 7 
May, 1759, Abigail, dau. of Daniel and Mary (Wanton) Coggeshall 
of North Kingston, R. I. ; Wanto?i^ of East Greenwich, R. I., b. 24 
Feb. 1760, d. 17 Dec. 1842, m. 25 Oct. 1789, Elizabeth, dau. of 
Maj. Nathan Goodale, and Elizabeth (Phelps), his wife, of Brook- 
field, Mass. 

Silas m. (ist) 12 July, 1830, Abby Perry, dau. of Hon. Dutee 
Jerauld and Abigail Coggeshall (Perry) Pearce of Newport, R. I. 
She was b. 12 July, 1813, d. 10 March, 1862. He m. (2d) 12 
July, 1864, Florida, dau. of Charles and Julia (Crawford) Gordon of 
Washington, D. C. She was b. 8 Sept. 1831. 

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Thomas Lincoln, b. lo May, 1831, brig.-gen. chief of engineers, 

U. S. A. 
Frederick Cummings, b. ii March, 1833, d. 13 Jan. 1834. 
Abby Pearce, b. 9 May, 1838, d. 25 Feb. 1886, m. 28 Nov. i860, 

Lewis Cass Hunt, brevet-brig.-gen. U. S. A. He was b. 23 

Feb. 1824, d. 6 Sept. 1886. 
Silas, b. ii Sept. 1841, capt. U. S. N, m. 4 Oct. 1865, Sophie 

Gray, dau. of Henry Foxhall and Sophie Gray (White) Heber- 

ton of Philadelphia. She was b. i March, 1842. 
Elizabeth Goodale, b. i6 Feb. 1844, m. 28 Nov. 1862, Col. 

Robert Nicholson Scott, U. S. A. He was b. 21 Jan. 1838, d. 

5 March, 1887. 
Edward Wanton, b. i Dec. 1850, lieut. U. S. infantry. 

By second wife — 

Julla Clifford, b. 3 May, 1865, m. 26 June, 1888, Hildreth Ken- 
nedy Bloodgood of New York City. 
Frederick Gordon, b. 26 Sept. 1866, d. 22 Dec. 1867. 

THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY. 

Eldest son of Gen. Silas Casey, whom he succ. in 1882; 
was b. in Madison Barracks, Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., 
10 May, 1 83 1, and was graduated at the U. S. Military 
Academy as brevet 2d lieut. corps of engineers in 1852. 
His first service was as assistant engineer upon the harbor 
works of Delaware Bay and River and the construction of 
Fort Delaware until 1854. From 1854 to 1859 he was 
assistant professor of civil and military engineering at the 
Military Academy, and from 1859 to 1861 in command of 
engineer troops on Puget's Sound, Washington Territory. 
He became capt. of engineers, 6 Aug. i86i,and served during 
the Civil War as engineer on the staff of the general com- 
manding the Department of V^irginia, as superintending engi- 
neer of the construction of Forts Gorges, Preble, Scammell, 
Popham, and Knox, and the sea-coast batteries on the coast 
of Maine, and on special duty with the North Atlantic squad- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 21/ 

ron during the first expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C, Dec. 
1864. He was made major of engineers, 2 Oct. 1863, and 
brevetted lieut.-col. and colonel 13 March, 1865. He contin- 
ued in charge of the construction of fortifications on the 
coast of Maine until 1867, when he was placed in charge of 
the Division of Fortifications in the engineer bureau of the 
War Department in Washington, D. C, and continued upon 
this duty until 1877, when he was charged with public build- 
ings and grounds in the District of Columbia,. the Washing- 
ton aqueduct, and the construction of the building for the 
State, War, and Navy departments, which structure he com- 
pleted in 1888. He was made lieut.-col. of engineers, 2 Sept. 
1864. In 1878 he was selected as the engineer to complete 
the Washington Monument. This he accomplished, 6 Dec. 
1884, by placing a new and enlarged foundation beneath the 
old one; by carrying the shaft from a height of 150 feet to 
500 feet; and crowning it with a pyramidion 55 feet in height 
in place of the flat terminal of the original design. He was 
promoted colonel corps of engineers, 13 March, 1884, and in 
1886 became president of the Board of Engineers in New 
York City. On 6 July, 1888, he was appointed brigadier- 
general and chief of engineers U. S. A., with office in 
Washington, and on 2 Oct. 1S88, was by Act of Congress 
designated to erect the new building for the Library of Con- 
gress. Besides numerous official reports and articles upon 
engineering, he has contributed sketches to historical and 
genealogical magazines. 

He m. 8 May, 1856, Emma, dau. of Prof. Robert Walter and 
Louisa [Ferguson] Weir, N. A., of the U. S. Military Academy. 
She was b. 2 June, 1834. Children — 

Tho\us Lincoln, b. 19 Feb. 1857, captain corps of engineers, 
U. S. A. 

Robert Jerauld, b. 31 Aug. 1859, d. 7 Aug. i860. 

Harry Weir, b. 17 June 1861, d. i Sept. 1880. 

Edward Pearce, b. 18 June, 1864, architect and civil engineer. 



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iFrantis He iSaron (ffiootitoin. 

He was b. in a town adjoining Plymouth, Mass., ab. 1760; 
d. Frankfort, Me., 19 Feb. 1S16. He was com. surgeon's 
mate of Bradford's (14th) reg. i Jan. 1777; was in H. Jack- 
son's (9th) reg. in 1781 ; in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783. 
Removing to Frankfort, Me., in 1796, he practised medicine 
there until his death, which was caused by being thrown 
from his carriage. He was also a justice of the Court of 
Common Pleas of Hancock County (181 1), and a judge of 
the Supreme Court. He m. at Plymouth, Mass., in Jul}', 
1787, Jane, eldest dau. of Rev. Chandler Robbins. 

BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, LL.D. 

He was b. Boston, 27 Sept. 1834, and was adm. in 1864, 
under the rule of 1854. His grandfather, Capt. Benjamin 
Gould, was ensign in Little's reg., and was wounded 19 April, 
1775. It is recorded of him that on the morning of that 
day he had been ploughing in the meadow on the opposite 
side of the road from his father's house, which is still stand- 
ing, and came home for breakfast. His feet being wet, he 
sat down in the chimney-corner to change his stockings and 
shoes, and was thus occupied when he heard the signal given 
for the minute-men. He sprang up at once, took down his 
musket from where it hung over the fireplace, seized a loaf of 
bread from the table, and stopping only to kiss his mother, 
started for the rallying-place at the church with one foot dry- 
shod and the other wet. The company started immediately 
on their march, and took part in the fight on the Concord 
road at Menotomy, near East Lexington. At nightfall he 
was lying wounded in a house on that road. A touching 
allusion to the wound then received from a bullet which 
struck him on the right cheek, fracturing the bone, is con- 
tained in the poem by his daughter Hannah F. Gould, en- 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 219 

titled " The Scar of Lexington." He subsequently took part 
in the battles at Bennington, Stillwater, and Saratoga, and 
was captain of the guard at West Point at the time of 
Arnold's treason, which he was one of the earliest to dis- 
cover independently. 

Benjamin Apthorp Gould, son of Capt. Benjamin, was 
b. at Lancaster, Mass., 15 June, 1787. He graduated at 
Harvard College in 18 14, having in that year already taken 
charge of the Boston Latin School, by special permission of 
the college faculty. He remained in that position until the 
spring of 1828, editing meanwhile several books for the use 
of the pupils of the school. These found almost universal 
adoption throughout the country, and remained in general 
use for a long series of years. He was thus the editor of 
the earliest American editions, not only of Virgil, Ovid, 
and Horace, but of any classic author. Mr. Gould seems to 
have been peculiarly successful in securing the affection and 
respect of his pupils, many of whom yet survive. His health 
compelled him to resign after fourteen years of service ; and 
after two years of travel he engaged in commerce as a ship- 
owner and importer of cargoes from China and the East 
Indies, at first chiefly in connection with his father-in-law. 
He m., in 1823, Lucretia Dana, dau. of Nathaniel Goddard, 
and d. in Boston, 24 Oct. 1859. 

Benjamin Apthorp Gould, son of the foregoing, was b. in 
Boston, 27 Sept. 1824. On leaving college he served for a 
year as master of the Roxbury Latin School, which was 
transformed, while under his direction, from a high school to 
one for classical training. 

In the summer of 1845 he resigned this charge, in order 
to pursue his scientific studies in Europe, where he remained 
until the end of the year 1848, visiting the various observa- 
tories, and working for some time at those of Greenwich, 
Paris, Berlin, and Gottingen. Returning, he established and 



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maintained for twelve years the " Astronomical Journal," 
which, although suspended in 1861, was resumed in 1886, and 
is still continued. At the beginning of 1852 he took charge 
of the longitude work of the U. S. Coast Survey, which he 
continued to direct until 1867. The electric telegraph had 
then been only recently extended over the country, and the 
methods and apparatus for employing it in the determina- 
tion of longitudes had not been perfected. This work he 
accomplished, and thus determined a large number of lon- 
gitudes throughout the country previous to the adoption of 
the same methods in Europe. 

In 1856-59 he organized the Dudley Observatory at 
Albany, and together with Professors Bache, Henry, and 
Peirce, his colleagues in the scientific Council of the Ob- 
servatory, succeeded in maintaining it as a scientific institu- 
tion in opposition to the original trustees who had delegated 
all authority in its management, but desired to make it an 
advertisement and plaything. When actual violence released 
him from further responsibility, he returned to his home and 
his astronomical studies. 

In the latter part of the war for the Union, he took charge 
of the statistical department of the U. S. Sanitary Commis- 
sion, and in 1868 published the " Military and Anthropo- 
logical Statistics of American Soldiers," which contains many 
important results concerning the physical statistics of man, 
the laws of his proportions, growth, stature, weight, strength, 
etc., and of the distribution of populations by ages. 

In 1862-65 he superintended the computation of the un- 
reduced observations of the Washington Observatory, which 
covered a period of more than twelve years. 

Immediately upon the successful establishment of the At- 
lantic cable in 1866, he sailed for Europe in behalf of the 
U. S. Coast Survey, taking the necessary instruments and 
assistance, built a little observatory at Valencia, in Ireland, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 22 1 

and succeeded in making the observations and carrying out 
the operations needful for determining the longitude between 
Washington, on the one hand, and Greenwich on the other, 
before the English astronomers had thought it possible to 
begin the work, although they too had made all preparations 
for undertaking it. 

In May, 1870, he started with his family for South America, 
to carry out a long-cherished plan for making a thorough 
survey of the southern heavens and forming a catalogue of 
southern stars. 

For this purpose he had, three years previously, arranged 
the mode of procedure and bespoken the instruments, which 
were, however, more than two years in construction. Mean- 
while the Argentine minister to the United States, Mr. 
Sarmiento, had become strongly interested in the project ; 
and upon his election in 1868 to the Presidency of the 
Argentine Republic, he induced Dr. Gould to abandon the 
original plan for a private expedition, and to carry out 
the work under national authority. The design was success- 
fully accomplished; an observatory was built in the town 
of Cordoba, at the western limit of the great pampas, and 
organized as a permanent national institution. The undertak- 
ing, which had been intended to occupy three years, grew into 
fifteen before the whole work was completed ; but its extent 
was more than proportionally greater than that originally 
planned. 

In 1885 the work was completed. In its fourteen quarto 
volumes of results are contained: (i) a description of all 
the stars perceptible by the naked eye from the South pole 
to 10° north, with a determination of the brightness of each 
and a rearrangement of the southern constellations; (2) a 
catalogue, giving the positions and magnitudes of more than 
73,000 stars, determined as sharply as possible from one 
observation each; (3) another catalogue, with the positions 



222 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of about 33,500 stars, determined by not less than four ob- 
servations each, made with the highest precision attainable 
in the present condition of practical astronomy; and, finally, 
all the individual observations from which these results were 
derived. Numerous interesting discoveries naturally attended 
these researches. 

In 1872 Dr. Gould organized the Argentine Meteorological 
Office for studying the climatic laws, of the South American 
Continent, regarding which practically nothing at all was at 
that time known, excepting the records of a very few ob- 
servations made at a few points on the Atlantic and Pacific 
coasts. He established stations throughout the interior, — 
from the Andes to the Atlantic and from the torrid zone to 
Cape Town, — so that, from the results thus obtained, the 
general distribution of rain, atmospheric pressure, tempera- 
ture, wind, and storms had become known before his de- 
parture from the country in 1885. Five volumes of the 
annals of the Meteorological Office were published during 
his sojourn at Cordoba, and sundry others have been since 
published by his successor. This institution, as well as the 
Observatory, continues in active operation, each being now 
under the direction of one of Dr. Gould's former assistants. 

Furthermore numerous determinations of longitude and 
latitude were made b\- him, or under his direction, for 
geographical purposes ; and the magnetic constants observed 
at different places. 

He m., in 1861, Mary Apthorp, only dau. of Hon. Josiah 
Quinc}', Jr. This gifted woman shared all the discomforts 
and sacrifices entailed by the long exile to a region where, 
at the time of their arrival, few of the comforts and none of 
the luxuries of the life to which she had been accustomed 
could be found. In his dedication of the first of the star- 
catalogues to her memory, Dr. Gould bears witness that 
the vast undcrtakinLf would nc\'cr have been bcsjun without 



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her encouragement, carried on without her abundant and 
supporting sympathy, nor completed without her practical 
assistance. 

They had five children — 

Susan Morton Quincy, b. 27 Aug. 1862. 

LUCRETIA GODDARD, b. 20 Nov. 1 864. 

Alice Bache, b. 5 Jan. 1868. 

Benjamin Apthorp, b. 8 Feb. 1870. 

Mary Quincy, b. 16 April, 1872. 

Dr. Gould's descent from Zacclietis^ Gould (b. 1589 at Hemel 
Hempsted, Hertfordshire, England, and of Lynn and Topsfield about 
1639) was through yi?/i« (b. 10-21 June, 1635, d. 26 Jan. 1709-10), 
who m. 2 Oct. 1660, Sarah, dau. of John Baker; Zaccheus"^ (b. 25 
March, 1672, d. 29 April, 1739), who m. 21 Jan. 1702, Elizabeth, 
dau. of John Curtis ; John^ (b. 29 Jan. 1709-10, d. 21 June, 1778), 
who m. 5 Jan. 1 748-9, widow Esther (Giles) Bixby ; Capt. Beti- 
jamin* (b. Topsfield, 15 May, 1751, d. 30 May, 1841), who m. 
19 July, 1 781, Griselda Apthorp, dau. of Gershom Flagg of Boston 
and Lancaster. 

iloljn CScraton. 

He was b. Roxbury, Mass., 10 March, 1741 ; d. there 16 
Dec. 1783. Before the war he was a trader in Roxbury, and 
a brigadier with the rank of licut. in the Governor's Horse- 
Guards (1774). He was major and lieut.-col. of Heath's reg. 
early in 1775; col. (24th, late Bond's), i Jul}', 1775; and of 
the 3d continental reg. Mass. line, until com. brig.-gen. 7 Jan. 
1783. In the following Oct. he returned home on account of 
sickness, and died a few weeks afterward. He performed sev- 
eral daring exploits during the siege of Boston. On the night 
of 2 June, 1775, he carried off from Deer Island 800 sheep and 
lambs, together with a number of cattle ; and on 12 July, with 
136 men, he went to Long Island, and burned the barns and 
other buildings, and stores collected there. His regiment was 
ordered to Canada in April, 1776; but rejoined Washington's 
army in Dec. just before the battles of Trenton and Prince- 



224 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ton ; and was in Nixon's brigade in the operations and battles 
ending with the surrender of Burgoyne. He was a prominent 
member of Christ Church, Boston, of which his brother James 
was rector. 

He was the son of John and Catharine Greaton, and in 1760 m. 
Sarah, dau. of Richard and Ann Humphreys. Richard d. i Aug. 
1759, ae. 59; Ann, d. 20 April, 1753, se. 33. Mrs. Sarah Greaton, 
b. 9 Aug. 1742, m. (2d) Samuel Ridgway, and d. 14 May, 1822. 
John and Sarah had — 

Ann, b. 6 Dec. i 762, m. 23 Feb. i 784, Samuel Heath of Ro.xbury, 
and d. 28 Nov. 1830. 

R1CH.4RD H. 

LucRETiA, b. 20 Dec. 1769, d. unm. 12 Oct. 1857. 

John, b. 30 Sept. 1771, d. 26 April, 1772. 

Katv, b. 27 Jan. 1773, d. March, 1859, m. James Dana, a teacher 
at Brigliton ; they had a son, Samuel Heath, bapt. i June, 1794. 

Sally, b. 7 Dec. 1774, d. 13 Sept. 1775. 

S.iVLLY M., b. 13 Feb. 1781, m. Joseph Heath, d. March, 1863. 

Harriet, b. 19 Sept. 1782, d. 7 Sept. 1783. 

John, b. 31 Oct. 1783, d. 17 Sept. 1791. 

Joljn EOfjffltorfflljt (Srcaton. 

He was b. Boston, 1761 ; d. unm. in N. Y. City, in Feb. 
1815. James, his father, brother of Gen. John, was b. 10 
July, 1730, d. 1773, Y. C. 1754. He was a Prot. Episc. 
clergyman; was rector of Christ Church, Boston, in 1759-67, 
and of the church at Huntington, L. I., from 1767 to his death. 
He m. (in Boston) Mary, daughter of John, and great- 
granddaughter of the celebrated Rev. John Wheelwright, a 
founder and the first minister of Exeter. His widow, after his 
decease, m. Dr. B. Y. Prime, and d. March, 1835, ae. 91. John 
W. was com. ensign in Greaton's (3d) reg. 16 July, 1782, and 
after the war commanded a merchant ship. He joined the 
N. Y. Society by transfer in 1796, and was succ. in that So- 
ciety by his nephew John W. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 225 

JSttljartr pjumpftrcg (ffireaton. 

Son of Gen. John; b. Boston, 8 Aug. 1765; d. New Or- 
leans, in July, 1815. Com. ensign in Greaton's (3d) reg. 30 
Nov. 1781 ; app. lieut. 23d U. S. inf. 4 March, 1791 ; severely 
wounded in St. Clair's battle with the Miami Indians, 4 Nov. 
1791; capt. Feb, 1793- i June, 1802. 

He m. (ist) 6 Feb. 1787, Sarah Bourn, who d. Sept. 1798, and 
left a dau. Lucretu A., and a son, John, who d. in 1866, in Charles- 
ton, S. C, leaving an unm. dau. John was elected a member of the 
Society in 181 6, but failed to qualify. 

iFrann's CSrccn. 

He was b. Charlestown, Mass., 1750; d. Boston, 5 Sept. 
1 83 1. Com. 2d lieut. in Paterson's reg. 27 March, 1777; ist 
lieut. Vose's (ist) reg.; com. capt. 30 Aug. 1780; deputy- 
muster-master in Rhode Island, 12 Feb. 1778-12 Jan. 1780. 
Left the army, 3 Nov. 1783. Vice-Pres. of the MASS. Soc. 
CiN. 1829-31. 

Son of Wm., of Charlestown, whose father came to that place, m. 
a Sloan, and afterward returned to England, and d. there. Shortly 
afterward his widow returned to America, and Wm., his father, was 
b. on the passage. Capt. Green m. (ist) Brown, and had sev- 
eral children, none of whom survived. His second wife was Mary, 
dau. of Benj. Henderson. She d. Boston, 9 Jan. 1829. His second 
son, Ellis B., was a captain in the Mexican war. 

BENJAMIN HENDERSON GREENE. 
Third son of Capt. Francis, whom he succ. in 1853; b. 
24 Feb. 1802; d. 12 March, 1889. He was a bookseller 
and publisher in Boston during the early part of his life. At 
the time of his death he was a resident of Brookline. Dur- 
ing and after the civil war he was secretary and disbursing 
agent for the Mass. Soldiers' Fund, and disbursing agent for 
15 



2 26 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

the Boston Soldiers' Fund, until those funds were exhausted. 
He was Assist. Sec. of the Society from 1859 to 1863, and 
a member of the Standing Committee for over twenty-five 
years. Pres. Cobb says of him : " Mr. Greene was an earnest 
and useful member of the Society, constant in his attendance 
upon the stated meetings so long as his health permitted. 
He was well known in Boston, and was connected with several 
philanthropic and charitable institutions, to whose interests he 
devoted himself with great assiduity and faithfulness. He 
was an excellent man in all the relations of life." 

He m. 9 Dec. 1830, Elizabeth Clark, dau. of George Darracott. 
She d. 26 March, 1889. They had four children, the eldest alone 
surviving them. 

GEORGE FRANCIS GREENE. 

Eldest son of Benjamin H., whom he succ. in 1889; was b. 
Boston, Mass., 15 Sept. 1832. In 1853 he went to Australia 
in the service of a mercantile house; remained there three 
months, and then went to Calcutta; was in India through the 
sepoy rebellion; returned to America in 1862; has since 
been engaged in the East India business. 

He m. 28 June, 1S82, Hannah Frances, dau. of William Ellis. 

HORACE GREEN, M.D., LL.D. 

Adm. in 1858 under the rule of 1854, as the representative 
of his father. Dr. Zeeb, who d. Brandon, Vt. in 1821. Horace 
was b. Chittenden, Vt., 24 Dec. 1802 ; d. at Greenmount, Sing 
Sing, N. Y., 29 Nov. 1866; M.D. of Middleb. Coll. 1824; 
LL.D. of U. of Vt. 1853; Prof Med. Coll. Castleton, Vt., 
1840-43 ; and in the N. Y. Med. Coll. 1850-60. He studied 
medicine in Rutland, in Philadelphia, and in Paris, and prac- 
tised in Rutland and in N. Y. City. Dr. Green was the author 
of several medical works, and was one of the founders in 1850 
of the N. Y. Med. Coll. Dr. Zeeb was one of four brothers 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 227 

from Winchendon, Mass., all of whom were at Bunker Hill, 
where two of them, one of whom was Major James, were 
mortally wounded. He was in the battles of Bunker Hill, 
White Plains, Bennington, and Saratoga. The second brother, 
Nathan, a lieut., was killed at Monmouth. 

He m. (ist) 20 Oct. 1829, Mary Sigourney Butler, by whom he 
had — 

Anna Sophia, b. 27 April, 1832. 

Hem. (2d) 27 Oct. 1841, Harriet Sheldon Douglass. Children — 

Sarah Douglass, b. 19 Nov. 1842. 

Harriet Sheldon, b. 27 Aug. 1844. 

Catharine Douglass, b. 5 July, 1846, d. 7 July, 1847. 

Horace Douglass, b. i Jan. 1848. 

Henry Loomis, b. 16 March, 1849. 

Mary Walton, b. 7 Nov. 1850, d. 6 Feb. 1854. 

John Douglass, b. 4 June, 1852, d. 11 Aug. 1853. 

George Walton, b. 9 May, 1854. 

Edmund, b. 26 Feb. 1856, d. 17 Sept. 1856. 

Lucia Butler, b. 25 March, 1857. 

212SiUtani fiSrccnlcaf. 

Of Haverhill; d. there 29 March, 1833. He entered the 
Revolutionary army as a private in Jan. 1776; was in 1777 
app. ensign in Smith's (13th) reg. ; com. lieut. 13 Feb. 1778. 
He was at the battle of Harlem Heights, the battles with 
Burgoyne, Sullivan's campaign in Rhode Island, bore the 
standard of his regiment at Monmouth, and was in the battle 
of Brooklyn Heights, and the memorable retreat from Long 
Island. After the war he returned to Haverhill and kept 
the Sun Tavern. His father, William, was for a time captain 
of a militia company at the beginning of the war. 

Lieut. William, Jr., m. 16 March, 1788, Abigail Soley, who d. 4 
Feb. 1804. They had — 

Eliza, b. 18 June, 1788, m. 22 Nov. 18 10, Hiram Plummer. 

Ann, m. 29 Jan. 1822, Wesley Balch. 

Samuel. 

Sophia, b. 14 Oct. 1797. 



225 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

SAMUEL GREENLEAF. 
Only son of Lieut. William, whom he succ. in 1834; was 
b. II Sept. 1795 ; d. 12 Dec. 1856. 

He m. I Oct. 1820, Dolly Osgood. They had — 
William Hovey, b. 20 Dec. 1820, who served four years in the 
war of the Rebellion ; and two sons who died young. 

JJofjii (ffinHIcg. 

He was a member of Paddock's artillery before the war ; 
com. capt.-lieut. of Crane's artillery, i Jan. 1777; and was a 
pensioner, living in New York in 1820. 

Samrs f^aU. 

He was b. Cohasset, 22 Feb. 1750; d. 3 April, 1819. He 
was a mason by trade, and before the war was a member of 
Paddock's artillery Co. In 1776 he was a sergt. in Knox's 
art. reg. ; was com. 2d licut. 20 Dec. 1776; 1st lieut. in Crane's 
art. reg. 12 Sept. 1777; capt.-lieut. 12 April, 1780, and served 
through the war. In Aug. 1782, he had charge of the labora- 
tory at Salisbury. 

James, his father, believed to have come from Scotland, 
was of Hingham as early as 1740; was a shipwright, and built 
and launched vessels in Cohasset. Capt. James, who was six 
feet two inches in height, and well made, was engaged in the 
battles of White Plains, Brandywine, and Monmouth. All 
three, who have represented this family in the Society, have 
met their death by accident. Capt. James walked out of an 
open window in the Exchange Coffee House, Boston, in his 
sleep, breaking his ankle, and d. from its mortification after 
amputation ; and his son George d. in consequence of an 
injury to his spine, caused by a fall from a wharf. 

By his wife, Persis, who survived him, he had — 
Henry Knox, b. 27 Nov. 1786. 
James, b. 18 Feb. 1788. 
George. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 229 

GEORGE HALL. 

Eldest surviving son of James, whom he succ. in 1848; b. 
Cohasset, 29 Jan. 1790; d. there 18 July, 1854. He followed 
the sea from boyhood, and later in life was engaged in the 
fishing business. When quite a young man, he was presented 
with the Humane Society's gold medal for saving the lives of 
a shipwrecked crew on Cohasset Rocks. 

He had seven sons and five daughters ; namely, J.^mes ; Isaac ; 
George ; Abraham ; Samuel C. ; Henry K. ; Winslow G. ; 
Mary ; Cynthia ; Harriet ; Lizzie C. ; Anna. 

JAMES HALL. 

Eldest son of George, whom he succ. in 1855 ; b. Cohasset, 
9 Aug. 1817; d. at sea, 16 Oct. 1870. He was a shipmaster, 
and at the time of his death commanded the ship " Orion," 
bound from the Chincha Islands via Callao to New York. 
She had doubled Cape Horn, and was in lat. 57° S., 16 
Oct., when she encountered a severe gale, accompanied by a 
heavy cross sea. During the night the ship broached to, and 
every sail set was torn to rags with a report like a clap of 
thunder. At the same time a huge sea towered over the 
port-quarter, broke on board, sweeping the mate and two 
men at the wheel overboard, and driving Capt. Hall back- 
ward through both cabins, crushing him to death in the 
wreck. The ship was taken safely into Montevideo by a 
common sailor named Jacob Wreith, who assumed the com- 
mand and who displayed a heroism and seamanship beyond 
all praise. To his exertions the preservation of the vessel 
and the lives of the survivors of the crew was mainly due. 
Capt. Hall had followed the sea from boyhood, and was a 
Efood man and an able seaman. He left a wife and daughter. 



230 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

GEORGE WINSLOW HALL. 

Great-grandson of Capt. James, and nephew of the above- 
named James, whom he succ. in 1887 ; was b. Cohasset, Mass., 
9 Nov. 1849; educated in Chelsea, Mass., where he now 
lives. 

He was b. in Pembroke, Mass., 1756; d. Waterford, Me., 
1808. When he was but a lad, his father removed to Har- 
vard, Mass. Entering the army at the beginning of the 
Revolutionary war as a waiter, he was com. ensign, i Jan. 
1 78 1, and served to the end of the war. In 1788 he removed 
to Waterford, Me., then a wilderness. He spent his winters 
in teaching, and, possessing more than ordinary talent, held 
many responsible offices in the town. On one occasion, the 
orator engaged for the Fourth of July oration failing to ap- 
pear, Mr. Hamlin, at the request of his townsmen, took his 
place, and made an address with which all were satisfied. 

His father had a large family. Four of the sons were named, re- 
spectively, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Another son, Dr. 
Cyrus, was the father of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin. Africa m. in 
1785, Susannah Stone of Groton. They had — 

Nabby, b. Aug. 1786, d. 1863. 

POLADORE, b. 2 Feb. 1789, d. 27 July, 1870. 

Almira, b. Feb. 1791, d. 187 1. 

Susan, b. Feb. 1793, d. 1847. 

CosTiLLO, b. July, 1797, d. 1834. 

Lvdia, b. Aug. 1801, m. John Wilkins, resides at Waterford. 

ANDREW POLADORE PERRY. 

Grandson of Poladore Hamlin and great-grandson of Africa 
Hamlin, whom he succ. in 1872; was b. Waterford, Me., 31 
Oct. 1839. He was a teacher of music in Boston from 1S66 
to 1873, when he was appointed postmaster at Glenwood, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 23 1 

Medford, Mass. With the exception of a short interval dur- 
ing the Cleveland administration he held the office contin- 
uously until, in 1890, the free-delivery system was introduced 
in Medford, and he was then appointed superintendent of 
" Station A." He carries on business as a grocer in addition 
to his official duties. He is unm. 

He was b. 19 Feb. 1754; d. Ro.xbury, Mass., 14 May, 1813. 
Ensign in Paterson's reg. 1776; com. lieut. in Vose's (ist) 
reg., 28 March, 1777; capt. 6 Jan. 1780; resigned, 2 Nov. 
1780, after four years and ten months' service. 

Nathaniel Hancock, his ancestor, was of Cambridge, in 1635. 
Belcher, by his wife Ann Ackers (b. 12 Nov. 1760, d. 28 Nov. 
1847), had — 
Henry Killam ; Anne, b. Aug. 1 790 ; Ebenezer, b. 20 March, 

1792; William, b. 19 Jan. 1794; Mary; Belcher, b. 19 July, 

1800; Hannah; John. 

HENRY KILLAM HANCOCK. 

Son of Capt. Belcher, whom he succ. in 1839; b. Brook- 
line, Mass., 8 Dec. 1788 ; d. Boston, 8 July, 1854. He carried 
on the business of an upholsterer in Boston. 

Hem. 10 Dec. 1829, Mary Ann Slack (b. 21 Feb. 1795, d. 5 
Sept. 1871). Their only child — 

Hannah Killam, b. 18 May, 1835, m. 11 Nov. 1854, Edward A. 
Hunting of Boston. They had Maiy A. and Hannah. 

Soljn SQ^art. 

He was b. Ipswich, Mass., 23 Oct. 1751 ; d. Reading, Mass., 
27 April, 1836. His emigrant ancestor settled in Ipswich as 
early as 1636. His father, John Hart, was a lawyer. He 
studied medicine under the eminent Dr. John Calef; began 
practice in Georgetown, now Bath, Me., at the age of nine- 
teen, and, young as he was, was well patronized. An ardent 



232 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

lover of liberty, he joined Col. Prescott's reg. as surgeon in 
1775, and accompanied it to New York in April, 1776. Upon 
its being disbanded, he joined the 2d reg.. Col. John Bailey, 
of which he was com. surgeon i Jan. 1777, continuing with it 
until its disbandment in July, 1784. Dr. Hart accompanied 
his regiment in every action in which it took part ; was one 
of those appointed to attend the execution of Major Andre, 
which he described as the saddest scene he ever witnessed ; and 
he enjoyed the confidence, and in some degree the intimacy, 
of the Commander-in-Chief. The latter having on one occa- 
sion selected him to bring ^2,000 in gold from Boston to the 
camp for the use of the army, Dr. Hart successfully performed ■ 
the hazardous duty, though a part of the journey was through 
a region infested with thieves and Tories. After the war he 
purchased a residence in the South Parish of Reading, near 
Crystal Lake, and soon had a large professional business, 
which extended to all the neighboring towns. Though never 
seeking civil or political honors. Dr. Hart received a liberal 
share of both. He was a Justice of the Peace and of the 
Quorum, and also of the Sessions, and was eight years in the 
House of Representatives, and five years in the Senate of 
Massachusetts. He dearly loved the Society of the Cincin- 
nati, always attended its meetings and hoped for its perpe- 
tuity. He was its VicE-President from 1834 until his death. 

He m. ab. 1778, Mary, only child of Capt. Abraham Gould of 
Stoneham. She d. 15 Nov. 1838. Their children were — 

Mary, b. 26 Sept. 1779, m. Henry Prentiss of Paris, Me., d. 13 

April, 1857. 
Abraham, b. 29 Sept. 1782, d. 5 Oct. 1833. 

John, b. 15 April, 1785, studied medicine, and d. 5 March, 1810. 
WiLLUM, b. 30 Jan. 1787, d. 17 May, 1800. 
SAR.AH, b. 23 Oct. 1 788, m. Dr. Thad. Spaulding of South Reading, 

Mass., d. 24 June, 1829. 
LuciNDA, b. 21 Jan. 1790, second wife of Dr. Spaulding. 
Samuel. 
Belinda, b. 23 Feb. 1798, d. 27 Jan. 1799. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 233 



SAIVJUEL HART, M.D. 

Son of Dr. John, whom he succ. in 1842; b. Reading, 
Mass., 27 Nov. 1796; d. 3 Sept. 1878; H. U. 1817. He 
studied medicine with his father, and at the Harvard Medical 
School, and received his medical degree in 1821. In Dec. 
1822, he settled in Beverly, where he had considerable prac- 
tice ; but, the labor attending it being considerably greater 
than the remuneration, he removed in July, 1828, to Oswego, 
N. Y., where he had a large practice. Impaired health, re- 
sulting from excessive professional labors, occasioned his 
removal in Oct. 1855, to Brooklyn, N. Y., where his health 
was soon regained, and he again resumed practice. 

Dr. Hart was a member of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, and of the Medical Societies of New York and of 
Massachusetts. He was also President of the Medical Socie- 
ties of Oswego and King's Counties; President of the Oswego 
City Medical Association, and a Curator of the Medical De- 
partment of the University of Buffalo. At the annual meet- 
ing of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati, 4 July, 1879, it 
was resolved: "That in the life and character of Samuel 
Hart, M.D., we have a winning exhibition of the beloved 
physician, whose professional skill and care and kindness 
secured him a grateful benediction in many a household ; 
whose integrity, purity, and honor as a man, with his stead- 
fast faith and practical piety as a Christian, gained him the 
perfect respect and confidence of all who knew him." 

In Sept. 1823, he m. Chariotte, youngest dau. of Andrew Newell, 
merchant of Boston. They had — 
CHARLorrE, b. 16 Nov. 1824. 
John, b. 6 April, 1827, a young man of great promise, who d. 20 

Jan. 1859 
Russell, b. 9 Aug. 1829, d. 9 July, 1830. 
CiEORGiANA Olivia, b. 19 June, 1831, d. Brooklyn, 10 Apnl, 1S63. 



2 34 BIOGRAVHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Charles Samuel, b. 19 Dec. 1S35, educated as a druggist; hos- 
pital steward ; had charge of the dispensary department of the 
hospital at the Point of Rocks, Va., during the civil war. 

PRENTISS CUMMINGS 

Great-grandson of Dr. Samuel Hart, whom he succ. in 
1880; was b. Sumner, Me., 10 Sept. 1840; H. U. 1864. He 
was Latin tutor at Harvard, 1866-70; Asst. U. S. Atty. Dist. 
Mass. 1873-81 ; Member of the Common Council of Boston, 
1881-83; Representative from Boston to the General Court, 
1884-85; President Cambridge R. R. 1885-87; Vice-Pres. 
West End Street Railway Co. 1887-90, and now (1890) 
counsel for that company. 

His descent on the fiither's side was from the Scotch family of 
Comyns, early settlers in New England. His great-grandfather, 
Oliver Cumins of Dunstable, Mass., was a soldier in the war of the 
Revolution. His grandfather, Oliver, who spelled his name " Cum- 
ings," was also a soldier in that war, and was one of the first settlers 
in Sumner, Me. He ra. for his second wife Phoebe Churchill, dau. 
of a Revolutionary soldier. Their second son, Whitney Cummings, 
who was the first to adopt the present spelling of the name, was the 
father of Prentiss. 

His descent from Hr.Jokn Hart, noticed above, was through Dr. 
Hart's dau. Mary, who m. Henry Prentiss. Their oldest dau., Mary 
Hart, m. Whitney Cummings. Henry Prentiss was the son of Rev. 
Caleb Prentiss of Reading, Mass., who led his parishioners from his 
church to the batde of Lexington. It thus appears that all the male 
ancestors of Prentiss Cummings who were of an age to make it pos- 
sible, took an active part in the war of the Revolution. Prentiss m. 
25 Feb. 1880, Annie Delena, dau. of Alonzo Lawrence Snow. 

JTljomas ?l|artsi)orn. 

He was b. Reading, Mass., 1742 ; d. Salem, Mass., 6 May, 
1819. Served as a soldier in the French war (1756-63); 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 235 

sergt. in Batchelder's Co. of Bridge's reg. 1775; ensign in 
Sargent's (i6th) reg. 1776;. com. lieut. in M. Jackson's (8th) 
reg. I Jan. 1777; capt. 26 July, 1779. He settled in Salem 
in 1783, where he was an officer of the customs and deacon 
of the First Church. 

He was the son of Thomas and Abiah ; and m. (ist) Tamar 
Flint; (2d) 7 Oct. 1805, Abigail Cleveland. He left no children. 
His heirs were the children of his brothers, Nathaniel and Jonathan. 



iSUslja Ji^arbcs. 

He was b. in Taunton, Mass , but removed to Easton be- 
fore 1767; d. there 11 Feb. 1821. He was sergt. in Capt. 
Drury's Co. of Knox's artillery in May, 1776; com. 1st lieut. 
in Lamb's artillery, 28 June, 1778; capt. -lieut. 1780. He 
was at the battle of Brooklyn Heights, where he distinguished 
himself by standing to his guns after the other members of 
the company had retreated, and by a skilful and daring 
manoeuvre preventing the British from getting possession of 
them. He was on duty at the execution of Major Andre, 
and subsequently served at the siege of Yorktown. After 
the war he lived in Taunton for a time, but returned to 
Easton in 1790. 

2Elnat1b<in fi}auttlL 

Of Rochester, Mass. ; elder brother of Major Jonathan. 
Com. lieut. 5 July, 1776, in Marshall's (loth) reg.; lieut. 
and adj. in Bradford's (14th) reg. 31 Jan. 1777; capt. I 
April, 1778; brigade major in 1 780; in Shepard's (4th) 
reg. 1782; in H. Jackson's in 1783; app. aide to Gen. R. 
Howe, 2 Sept. 1783. A grandson, Charles H. Rhett, of 
Alexandria, Va., applied in 1853 for a pension on account 
of his grandfather's Revolutionary services. 



236 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

JonaUjan ^sin'ktU. 

He was b. Rochester, Mass., 19 March, 1755 ; d. Belpre, O., 
in Dec. 1814. Com. ensign in Bradford's (14th) rcg. 31 Jan. 
1777 ; lieut. 5 Feb. 1779, and aide-de-camp to Gen. Paterson ; 
heut. and adj. in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1782-83 ; capt. 2d U. S. 
inf. 4 March, 1791; major, 20 March, 1794, and served in 
Wayne's successful campaign against the Miami Indians in 
that year. Emigrating to Ohio in 1788, he was one of the 
pioneer settlers of Belpre, Washington Co., where he m. 
Phebe, a niece of Griffin Greene, and d. leaving descend- 
ants. Gen. Wilkinson speaks of him as " a most excellent 
officer." 

He was b. Cambridge, Mass., 23 March, 1754; d. there 16 
Feb. 1839; H. U. 1772. Entered the army in 1775; com. 
capt. in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. 25 May, 1777; in Brooks's 
(7th) reg. in 1783. 

Son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Cotton) Hastings. He m. 7 Dec. 
1783, Lydia, dau. of Richard and Lydia (Trowbridge) Dana. She 
d. Woburn, 2 May, 1808. They had (all born in Woburn) — 

Harriet, b. 20 Sept. 1784, d. 25 Jan. 1S17. 

Amelia, b. 30 April, 1786. 

Elizabeth Cotton, b. 8 Oct. 17S7, d. 13 Oct. 1865. 

Edmund Trowbridge. 

Fr.ances Maria, b. 2 Oct. 1792. 

EiMiRA, b. 3 June, 1794, d. 10 Oct. 1857. 

Mary Augusta, b. 21 Oct. 179S, d. 13 March, 1869. 

EDMUND TROWBRIDGE HASTINGS. 

Only son of John, whom he succ. in 1839; b. Woburn, 
Mass., 15 May, 1789; d. Medford, Mass., 13 May, 1861. 
He was a merchant in Cambridgcport from 1815 to 1835, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 237 

and held the office of Selectman in the town of Cambridge in 
1828-30. In 1835 he removed to Boston, and was in business 
on State Street until 1842, when he removed to Medford. He 
acquired a large part of the land now occupied by the village 
of West Medford, laid out streets, and set out and carefully 
tended the beautiful trees which now adorn them. He was 
one of the grantors to the city of Cambridge of the old re- 
doubt now known as "Fort Washington." He presented to 
the city of Cambridge, in 1857, a valuable lot of land at Pine 
Grove known as Hastings' Square, for which he received the 
thanks of the City Council. He also laid out and dedicated 
to the public use Mystic Hill in West Medford, now called 
Hastings' Park. He was a promoter and one of the ori- 
ginal incorporators of the company that built the bridge 
between Cambridge and Brookline. 

EDMUND TROWBRIDGE HASTINGS. 

Eldest son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1863 ; b. 
Cambridge, Mass., 3 March, 1816; d. Medford, Mass., 3 Aug. 
1884. He resided in Medford. 

EDMUND TROWBRIDGE HASTINGS. 

Son of John Walter Hastings, and nephew of the above- 
named Edmund Trowbridge, whom he succ. in 1885 ; was b. 
Medford, 24 July, 1851 ; d. there 8 May, 1886; H. U. 1876. 
He was in the firm of Bradlee, Hastings, & Co., engaged in 
the heavy hardware business in Boston. 

He was b. Roxbury, Mass., 2 March, 1737; d. 24 Jan. 
1 8 14. He was bred a farmer, but his fondness for military 
exercises led him, in 1754, to join the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery Co., which he commanded in 1770, having 
previously been made a capt. in the Suffolk reg., of which 



238 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

he became colonel in 1774. In 1770 he wrote several 
essays in a Boston newspaper, signed "A Military Coun- 
tryman," on the importance of military discipline and skill 
in the use of arms. He was a member of the General 
Court in 1761 and in 1771-74; engaged with zeal in the 
Revolutionary contest ; was a delegate to the Provincial Con- 
gresses of 1774-75 ; and was a member of the committees of 
Correspondence and of Safety. He was appointed a brig.- 
gen. of Mass. militia, 8 Dec. 1774; maj.-gen. 20 June, 1775 ; 
brig.-gen. (continental army), 22 June, 1775 ; maj.-gen. 9 
Aug. 1776. He rendered great service in the pursuit of the 
British troops from Concord, 19 April, 1775, and in organiz- 
ing the rude and undisciplined army around Boston; and 
with his brigade was stationed at Roxbury during the siege 
of Boston. 

After its evacuation, he accompanied the army to New 
York ; opposed the evacuation of that city ; and near the 
close of the year 1776 was ordered to take command of the 
posts in the Highlands. 

In 1777 he was intrusted with the command of the East- 
ern Department, and had charge of the prisoners taken at 
Saratoga. In June, 1779, he was ordered to the command 
on the Hudson, where he was stationed till the close of the 
war. Returning to his farm, he became a delegate to the 
convention that adopted the Federal Constitution in 1788; 
State Senator, 1791-92 ; Judge of Probate for Norfolk County, 
1793 ; and in 1806 was chosen Lieut. -Gov. of Massachusetts, 
but declined the office. 

The whole of the collection of letters written by Washing- 
ton to Heath are printed in the Collections of the Mass. His- 
torical Society, 5th series, vol. iv. In his " Memoirs," written 
by himself, and published in 1798, Gen. Heath says of him- 
self: " He is of middling stature, light complexion, very cor- 
pulent, and bald-headed." This volume contains interesting 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 239 

and v'aluable records of the events of the war. He was 
not a strong man, but was honest, upright, and patriotic. 

He joined the Mass. Society, and contributed his month's 
pay; but instead of signing the Mass. roll, he placed his sig- 
nature next to Washington's on the parchment roll now in 
the archives of the General Society. In 1793 he wrote the 
following letter to Gen. Knox, requesting that his name be 
erased from the Institution : — 

RoxBURY, 18 Jan. 1793. 

Dear Sir, — When all Europe have their eyes fixed on Fiance, 
and every one who reveres the rights of man is admiring the mag- 
nanimous conduct of the French, I was the other day most sensibly 
affected on reading the account of the conduct of General Du- 
MOURIER,* when he presented himself to the National Convention 
in the month of October last, — an officer whose military and Ut- 
erary talents place him in a most conspicuous light, and who can- 
not but possess the most refined sentiments of honor as well as 
exquisite feelings for those marks of approbation which are conferred 
on distinguished merit, than which nothing can be dearer to a sol- 
dier. Yet this great and celebrated Citizen-General, in the presence 
of that August Assembly, took the Cross of St. Louis from his breast, 
and made an offering of it at the Shrine of Liberty, thereby indi- 
cating that he disdained to wear among a free and equal people any 
mark of distinction, evidenced by an order or device, which could be 
construed repugnant to liberty and equality. 

If the Cross of St. Louis, long worn in France as an emblem of 
the distinguished merit of the wearer, is judged by this great man as 

* About the time this letter was written, Gen. Dumourier had already 
begun to waver in attachment to the cause which he had been commending; 
and soon after he contracted what M. Thiers calls "guilty engagements" 
with the allied enemies of France. The "Convention" set a price on his 
head, and he took refuge in the camp of the Austrians. After wandering 
long in exile, he settled in England, whose government conferred on him a pen- 
sion. He died at Turville Park, 14 March, 1S23. in the 84th year of his age. 
M. Thiers speaks of him as "a superior man, without attachment to any cause, 
without principle, fifty years of whose life were spent in court intrigues, and 
thirty in exile, while only three were occupied on a theatre worthy of his 
genius." Madame Roland says he was "good-humored with his friends, and 
ready to cheat every one of them. 



240 EIOr.RAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

improper to be worn in a Republick, how can I, a citizen of the 
renowned Anufican Republick, allow my name to stand affixed to an 
institution, or wear a device which is construed by many of our fellow- 
citizens the indication of an order and distinction in society. Ani- 
mated by this recent example of the Gallic Citizen-General, I do 
hereby request that you will be pleased to erase my name from the 
institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, as I do from this moment 
for myself, renounce the institution : at the same time I pray you be 
assured that affection and esteem for every brother officer of the 
late American Army will continue to possess a warm corner of my 
heart, too deeply impressed to be effaced, or to stand in need of the 
aid of any device or institution, as remembrancers. 

While we are celebrating in high festivity the conduct and success 
of our French friends, let us, if not already practising, imitate such 
of their examples as appear to be evidently marked with propriety, 
and calculated to establish those principles which form the perma- 
nent basis of a genuine Republick. 

With sentiments of respect and esteem, I have the honor to be, 
dear Sir, your most obedient Servant, 

W. HEATH. 
Hon'ble Henry Knox, Esquire, 

Secretary to the General Society of the Cincinnati. 

His descent from William ' of Roxbury, who came from London 
in the " Lion," arrived 16 Sept. 1632, with his wife Mary and five chil- 
dren, and d. 29 May, 1652, was through Pekg^ b. Eng., who m. 
Susannah King, d. from a wound, and was buried 18 Nov. 167 1 ; 
Capt. William^ b. 30 Jan. 1664, m. 1 1 Nov. 1685, Hannah, dau. of 
John Weld, d. 3 Nov. 1738 ; Samuel* (his father), b. 27 Dec. 1701, 
m. 3 Dec. 1733, Elizabeth Payson, d. 23 Sept. 1763. 

William m. 19 April, 1759, Sarah Lockwood of Cambridge, who 
d. 10 Oct. 1814, ae. 78. They had — 

Samuel, b. 9 March, 1760, d. 24 Sept. 1841, m. 23 Feb. 17S4, Ann, 
eldest dau. of Gen. John Greaton. She d. 28 Nov. 1830, 
se. 69, s. p. 
William, b. 23 Sept. 1762, d. 8 March, 1836, m. 18 June, 1789, 

Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua Spencer. She d. 2 Oct. 1820. 
Sarah, b. 29 July, 1764, m. (ist) 25 Nov. 1783, Capt. John J. 
Spooner; (2d) Col. Isaac S. Gardiner of Brookline (3 Jime, 
1801). She d. 15 Sept. 1832. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 24 1 

Joseph, b. 2 April, 1766, d. 5 July, 1S42. He m. (ist) 18 Dec. 
1798, Naomi, dau. of Col. Joseph Vose, d. 21 Sept. 1810; m. 
(2d) Hannah Murdock. 
Henry, b. 31 May, 1769, d. 16 March, 1773. 
The children of Joseph and Hannah (Murdock) Heath were : 
Samuel Davis (name changed to Win. Samuel) ; Peleg, b. i 7 July, 
1813; Elizabeth, b. i 7 Feb. 1819. 

WILLIAM SAMUEL HEATH. 

Son of Joseph, and grandson of Gen. VVm. Heath, whom 
he succ. in 1844; b. Ro.xbury, 20 July, j8i2; m. 24 Sept. 
1844, Mary, dau. of Luther Sanderson; d. 12 June, i860. 
They had — 

Mary Sanderson, b. 28 Oct. 1845. 
William Henry, b. 20 Feb. 1849. 
Caroline Sherwood, b. 18 Sept. 1853. 
Joseph, b. ii March, 1856. 

iJciifamin li^fgtoootf. 

He was b. Shrewsbury, Mass., 25 Oct. 1746; d. Worcester, 
Mass., 6 Dec. 18 16. He learned the trade of a carpenter; but 
a love of letters induced him to devote to study all the time 
he could spare from his work, and at the age of 25 he had 
fitted himself for college. He entered Harvard in 1771, and 
became remarkably proficient in mathematics. It is said 
that he was ensign of a military Co. composed of students, 
and that he took part in the pursuit of the British troops 
from Lexington 19 April. He was com. lieut. in Col. J. 
Nixon's reg. in May, 1775; lieut. and paym. in Col. Thos. 
Nixon's (6th) reg. Jan. 1777; capt. in the same reg. 10 
April, 1779. He was in the Northern army during the cam- 
paign against Burgoyne, and served with credit to the end 
of the war. He was active and efficient in allaying the 
discontent of the army in 1782-83; and afterward served 
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242 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

on a committee appointed to adjust the accounts of the 
officers and soldiers of the Mass. line. In 1784 he returned 
to the management of his farm in Worcester. In 1802 he 
was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and 
held that office until Sept. 1811, when, by a new arrange- 
ment of the judicial system, the seats of all the judges of 
that tribunal were vacated. For many years he was an act- 
ing magistrate of the county, and member of the Board of 
Trustees of Leicester Academy. He was twice chosen an 
elector of President and Vice-President of the United States. 
By the General Court he was appointed Trustee of the 
Hassanamisset Indians; and was an officer of many chari- 
table and religious associations. He was the first ASSIST. 
Treas. of the Cincinnati. 

His descent from Deacon yohn ' Heymood, the earliest settler of 
this name (living in Concord prior to 1650), who m. Rebecca Atkin- 
son in 1656, and who d. 1 1 Jan. 1 707, was through Johti^ also deacon 

and selectman, who m. Sarah • and d. 2 Jan. 1 7 1 8 ; Phineas ^ (his 

father), b. 18 July, 1707, d. Shrewsbury, 20 March, 1776, who m. 
Elizabeth Moore of Sudbury. Phineas removed to Shrewsbury in 
1 739 ; was selectman, delegate to the General Court, and one of the 
town's Committee of Correspondence previous to the Revolution. 

By his wife Mehitabel, dau. of Elisha Goddard of Sutton, Capt. 
Benjamin had — 

HiTTY, b. 2 Dec. 1786, d. 18 Sept. 1839. 

Nathaniel Moore, merchant, b. July, 1788, m. 16 Sept. 1816, 
Caroline Sumner of Boston, and d. Richmond, Va., Oct. 1832. 

Elizabeth, b. 22 March, 1790, d. 21 July, 1877. 

Benjamin F. 

Joseph, b.' 11 March, 1794, d. 28 July, 1861. 

Lucy, b. April, 1 796, d. Nov. 1 796. 

Anna, b. 7 Feb. 1798, d. 30 Aug. 1814. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HEYWOOD, M.D. 
Son of Capt. Benjamin, whom he succ. in 1S58; b. Worces- 
ter, Mass., 24 April, 1792, d. there 7 Dec. 1869; Dartm. Coll. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 243 

1812; M.D. of Yale Med. Coll 1815. He was a practising 
physician in Worcester; was for twenty years the partner of 
Dr. John Green, and for several years a member of the 
Worcester City Government. 

He m. (ist) Nancy, dau. of Dr. John Green of Worcester, Sept. 
1820. They had — 

Benj.\min, b. 16 July, 1821, H.U. 1840, M.D. 1843, d. 21 July, 
i860, in Worcester. 

Caroline, b. 7 Aug. 1823. 

Frederick, b. 30 June, 1825, D.C. 1S45, M.D. 1848, d. St. 
Miguel, Central America, 20 Aug. 1855. 

John Green, b. 24 May, 1828, d. Feb. 1833. 

He m. (2d) Elizabeth Ruggles Green, sister of first wife, 23 June, 
1837. Children^ 

Nathaniel Moore, b. June, 1839, d. in infancy. 

Nancy Green, b. 24 Dec. 1840, m. Elisha Grisvvold, M. D., 
Sharon, Pa., 1874. 

John Green, b. 12 March, 1843. 

Mary Elizabeth, b. 26 Sept. 1845, m. Capt. Harry L. Stone, 
3 Jan. 1871. 

George, d. in infancy. 

JOHN GREEN HEYWOOD. 

Son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, whom he succ. in 1871, was 
b. Worcester, i March, 1843. Educated at the Lawrence 
Scientific School, H. U. Resides in Worcester. 

Of Dracut; son of Major Ephraim, an early settler there; 
ensign in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. ; com. lieut. 14 Sept. 1780, 
and served through the war ; afterward a justice of the peace, 
and until 18 14 High Sheriff of Middlesex County. 

Jcremiai) ?^iU. 

He was of Billerica, and was com. lieut in H. Jackson's 
(9th) reg. 25 Oct. 1779; in Sprout's (2d) reg. in 1783; d. 



244 BIOGRArillCAL NOTICES UK THE 

Boston, 1 6 July, 1801, ae. 45, leaving a widow, Ann, who d. 
in 1816. 

iSai-tlftt ?i^intis. 

Com. lieut. in Marshall's (loth) reg. 30 Jan. 1777; after- 
wards com. capt.-lieut. ; and having received a wound which 
disqualified him for active service, he was transferred to the 
invalid corps. 

Joljii p?i'li)iU. 

He was before the war a member of Paddock's artillery 
Co.; was fife-major of Kno.x's artillery in 1776; com. ist 
lieut. Crane's artillery, 22 Feb. 1780; was also inspector and 
superintendent of music, and d. Savannah, Ga., in April, 1788. 

Com. 1st lieut. in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. 1777; capt.- 
licut. in 1778, and served in Sullivan's R. I. campaign; adj. 
in Col. Gimat's light inf. reg.; com. capt. 9th reg. 24 July, 
1781 ; brigade inspector of Muhlenburg's brigade, at York- 
town; in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783-84; U.S. Marshal for 
the district of Maine, 1794-99; d. Portland, Me., 1802, leav- 
ing a widow Hannah. 

He was b. Wrentham, Mass., 10 Feb. 1748 ; d. 30 Jan. 1834. 
Com. lieut. in Shepard's (4th) reg. 1777; capt. 14 April, 
1780. He was a volunteer, 20 April, 1775, and left the army 
in June, 1783, having been in the actions at Long Island, 
Harlem, Frog's Point, White Plains, Danbury, Saratoga, 
White Marsh, Brandywine, Monmouth, and Rhode Island, 
and in several scouting parties. 

His descent from Thomas^ of Dorchester, in 1645, ^ proprietor 
of Sherborn in 1662, who d. 11 April, 1705, and Hannah Shepard, 
his wife, was through Eleazcr^ b. 20 Dec. 1660, d. 28 Feb. i 725-26, 



CI^'CINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 245 

who m. Sarah Pond of Dedham ; Danitl,^ b. 8 May, 1699, who re- 
moved to Wrentham ab. 1722, and m. Elizabeth Clark of Medfield ; 
David'^ (his father), 10 June, 1726, d. 1793, who m. Lydia Bragg, 
22 Jan. 1746-47. She d. 8 Sept. 1767. 

In 1 784 he m. Margaret, dau. of Dr. John Druce of Wrentham. 
Children — 

John Druce, a teacher, b. 30 Oct. 1785, d. 21 Oct. 1835, unm. 

Ch.\ndler, b. 2 Jan. 1787, resided in Newark, N. J., and had a 
dau. by wife Deborah, d. 1856. 

David Lyman, b. 2 Jan. 1795, m. Mary Tuite at Cincinnati, O., 
d. s. p. St. Louis, Mo., 4 Sept. 1844. 

Of Barre, Mass.; d. ab. 1810. Com. 2d lieut. of Whit- 
comb's (6th) reg. 1776; lieut. in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1777; 
capt. 1780. Taken by the Indians in 1778, while serving in 
the Northern army, and held some time in captivity, to the 
permanent injury of his health. Son of James Holden 
and Brown of Barre. 

He was b. Sudbury, Mass., in 1751 ; d. N. Y. City, 2 Aug. 
1818. Com. adj. of John Nixon's reg. 19 April, 1775 ; pres- 
ent at Bunker Hill and siege of Boston; com. capt. in T. 
Nixon's (6th) reg. i Jan. 1777, and served through the war. 
Selectman in Marlborough in 1783. He subsequently re- 
moved to N. Y. City, and became a member of the N. Y. 
State Society in 1809. 

By his wife Thankful, who suirvived him, he had — 

Thankful, b. 1783. 

William, b. 1785. 

Ann, b. 1787. 

Jonas, b. i 789. 

Mary, living in 1848. 



246 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



JJoljn ftfoVanx. 

He was b. Concord, Mass., 1753; d. Leicester, Mass., 13 
March, 1828. In his application for a pension, filed in 18 18, 
he stated that he had " served in the war of the Revolution 
from April, 1775, without interruption or absence, until Nov. 
1783, as private, sergeant, ensign, and lieutenant." He prob- 
ably enlisted from Paxton, Mass., immediately after the battle 
of Lexington, in Capt. Wheeler's Co. of Doolittle's reg., and 
was at the battle of Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston.* 
He was com. ensign in Col. Thomas Nixon's (6th) reg. i Jan. 
1777, and continued to serve in that regiment until the end 
of the war, except during the greater part of the year 17S1, 
when he was assigned for duty under Lafayette in Virginia. 
It would appear from the records that he was promoted to a 
heutenancy in 1779, but for some reason (probably because 
there was no vacancy to which he could be assigned in the 6th 
reg.) the promotion was cancelled by recommissioning him as 
ensign. In May, 1782, he was duly commissioned as lieuten- 
ant, and held that rank at the close of the war. He was in the 
engagement at Danbury and Ridgefield, Ct., in the spring of 
1777; the battles which preceded the surrender of Burgoyne, 
in the autumn of that year; and the siege of Yorktown, Va., 
in 1 78 1. He was also of the party which, under Gen. Wayne, 
so gallantly stormed Stony Point, " one of the most signal 
acts of bravery which took place during the war." After 
leaving the army he went to reside in the town of Holden, 
where he married Zipporah Hall in 1789. He removed from 
there to Pa.xton, and thence to Leicester previous to 1804. 
His wife d. in Jan. 1827. 

* The statements in relation to his position in the service at this time are 
conflicting. There is a tradition in the family that he was a lieut. or capL of 
militia, and that he was promoted for gallantry at Hunker Hill. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 247 

The children of John and Zipporah Holden are given on the town 
records of Leicester as follows — 

Edmond Hall, b. 2 Dec. 1 796, d. young. 

Silas, b. 21 June, 1798, unm. 

Olive, b. 29 Nov. 1799. 

Hannah, b. 8 Oct. 1801. 

Edmond Hall (2d), b. 8 May, 1804, d. Newark, N. J., 1866, m. 

Sarah Marvin. 
Abigail, b. 20 March, 1806. 
Asa Hall, b. 3 Sept. 1807, d. Newark, N. J. 1882, m. Anna 

Louisa Seymour. Children living : Edgar, Mary Frances, Emma 

Louisa, and Annie Hall. 
Susanna, b. 21 Dec. 1808. 

EDGAR HOLDEN, M.D. 

Eldest son of Asa Hall Holden and grandson of Lieut. 
John, whom he succ. in 1888 ; was b. Hingham, Mass., 3 Nov. 
1838; educated at Princeton Coll. and at Coll. of Physicians 
and Surgeons, NY.; received degrees of A.M., A. B., and 
Ph. D. from Princeton. He was in the regular service as a sur- 
geon in the U. S. navy during the war of the Rebellion ; has 
been Medical Director of the Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. of 
New Jersey for the past twenty-three years, consulting sur- 
geon to St. Michael's and St. Barnabas' Hospitals, and to the 
Eye and Ear Infirmary, Laryngological Department; Vice- 
President (1889) of Am. Laryngological Association, etc. 

He m. (for second wife, by whom alone he has sons) 3 April, 
1873, Helen Stewart, dau. of John Burgess. By first marriage he 
had Mabel Seymour and Isabella B. ; by second marriage he has — 

Edgar, b. 21 March, 1874. 

Elizabeth Wii^on, b. 17 April, 1877. 

Anna Louise, b. 28 Oct. 1879. 

John, b. 8 Feb. 1883. 

ILcbi l^oWen. 

Of Sudbury; d. Newark, N. J., 19 April, 1823, s. 69. 
Com. 2d lieut. Nixon's (6th) reg. 22 Dec. 1777; ist lieut. 



248 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

6 June, 1779; served from 1776 to 1783. During three years 
he was an officer in Washington's life-guard, enjoying in a 
pecuHar degree the confidence of his chief. He experienced 
much hard service. 

He was b. Marlboro', Mass., 27 Dec. 1739; removed with 
his father to Petersham in 1753, and served in the old French 
war (1756-63). He was one of the minute-men of 1775; 
and in July, 1776, was a private in Holmes's reg. in N. Y. ; ' 
was in the battles of Harlem and White Plains. Com. 2d 
lieut. in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. early in 1777; ist lieut. 11 
March, 1778; served till the end of the war, after which he 
settled in New York, and was a pensioner, living there in 
1820. 

His grandfather, John, of Newton (prob. grandson oi John of 
Dorchester, 1634, and son of Nathaniel), m. Elizabeth, dau. of 
Thomas Park; Jonas, his father, b. 12 May, 171 1, d. ab. 1769, m. 
(ist) Sarah Banister, 23 Nov. 1733; she d. 1738; m. (2d) Bath- 
sheba Ivory, 1739 ; she d. about 1762. Ivory had — 

Wilkes. 

Jonas, Secretary and Treasurer of Union College, from 1833 to the 
close of his life, in 1839. He had a son Alexander. 

JIavfe ?i^onanTr. 

The younger brother of Ivory; b. Shrewsbury, Mass., 19 
Nov. 1752; d. Bangor, Me., 21 May, 1844. Private in Hoi- 
man's reg in 1776, and afterward sergeant-major in his 
brother's company; com. ensign in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. 

7 Nov. 1777; lieut. 18 Sept. 1 780; present at Harlem, White 
Plains, and Saratoga; and some time paymaster and clothier 
of his regiment. After the war was over, he returned to 
Petersham and settled on a farm. In 1784 Gen. Rufus 
Putnam and Lieut. Holland were appointed by the State to 
survey lands at Schoodic and Passamaquoddy. He rcpre- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 249 

sented Petersham in the General Court 1788-89. He was 
captain of mihtia, and active in suppressing Shays's insur- 
rection in 1787-88. He removed to Belchertown in 1790, 
and was Representative from that town 1792-98 and 1800. 
In 1788-89 he surveyed the towns of Bethel, Rochester, 
and Stockbridge, and others in Vermont. In 1793 he and 
Jonathan Maynard, an old friend and brother officer, were 
appointed to survey the Great East Branch of the Penob- 
scot River. At this time Lieut. Holland penetrated through 
to the French settlements on the St. John River, and then 
struck off in a southwesterly direction over an almost im- 
passable forest, joining Mr. Maynard somewhere on the 
East Branch. In 1797 he and Maynard and John Cham- 
berlain surveyed and ran out nine townships above Bangor 
and Eddington, which were bought of the Penobscot In- 
dians in 1796. In 1 80 1 he removed to Eddington, Me. In 
1 801, under a resolve of the General Court, he surveyed 
the settlers' lots in Bangor. He surveyed many towns in 
Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties and in other places, 
continuing in this business until 1820. He was Agent for 
the Penobscot Tribe of Indians for several years. He lived 
at Eddington Bend for many years, moved from there to 
Orono about 1824, and to Bangor in 1842. He was an 
honest, industrious, and benevolent man, who had the con- 
fidence of all. In 1888 the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati 
caused a monument to be erected over his grave at Bangor 
(which up to that time had remained unmarked), in grateful 
memory of his service in the war of the Revolution. 



He ni. Lucy, dau. of Philip and Elizabeth (Winslow) Spooner of 
Petersham, Mass., 3 Jan. 1785. She d. at Upper Stillwater (Old- 
town), Me., 7 May, 1838. They had — 

Lucy Spooner, b. 30 Sept. 1786, d. 21 April, 1863, m. Luther 
Eaton, who d. 12 Feb. 1832, leaving four daughters and one 



250 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

son, Luther, b. 23 Oct. i82i,a cJvil engineer, and superintend- 
ent of the Bangor & Piscataqua Railroad. 

LucRETiA, b. II July, 1789, d. 28 Aug. 1832. 

Eliza Winslow, b. 15 Nov. 1792, d. 181 8. 

Bathsheba Ivory, b. 18 April, 1803, d. 29 May, 1851. 

Charles Turner. 

CHARLES TURNER HOLLAND. 

Only son of Park Holland, whom he succ. in 1862 ; b. Ed- 
dington Bend, near Bangor, 25 June, 1806; d. Fo.xboro', 
Mass., 8 March, 1879. 

He m. (1st) 28 Nov. 1844, Josephine C, dau. of Leonard Shaw 
of Fall River, who d. 15 Feb. 1852; (2d) 8 May, 1854, Eliza- 
beth P., sister of his first wife, and widow of Isaac R. Shepherd. 
Children — 

Josephine Park. 

Eliza Winslow, b. 1858. 

William Luther Eaton, great-grandson of Lieut. Park Holland, was 
elected as the successor in 1890. 

JCBBC p?olltstrc. 

He was the son of Gordon and Hannah (Strong) Hollister, 
and probably a descendant of Lieut. John, the emigrant; b. 
abt. 1756; d. Burlington, Vt, 19 Jan. 1831. Lieut, in Vose's 
(ist) reg. ; com. capt. 21 March, 1782; was in H.Jackson's 
(4th) reg. in 1783. 

He m. 2 Oct. 1805, Clarissa, dan. of Daniel Hurlbut. She was 
b. Pittsfield, Mass., 7 Jan. 1780, d. Burlington, Vt., 5 Jan. 1839. 
They had no children. 

JoJjn ?l?omans, pi.B. 

He was the second son and third child of Capt. John 
Homans, who was b. 25 Oct 1703, and who came to this 
country from North Forland, Kent Co., Eng., about 1720. 
He was master and part-owner of a ship voyaging between 





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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 25! 

London and Boston, and brought over in 1734 the bell of the 
Old South Church, the gift of Thomas Hollis of London, 
nephew of the benefactor of Harvard College of the same 
name. After repeated voyages, and the acquirement of a 
small fortune by mercantile ventures, he settled in Boston, 
whence in a few years he removed to Dorchester, where he 
spent the rest of his life in the improvement of his estate. 
He took an active interest in the events immediately pre- 
ceding the Revolution, and on 4 Jan., 1773, he was made by 
vote of the town one of the Committee of Correspondence to 
communicate with similar committees of other towns in re- 
gard to concert of action, etc. He was appointed, 9 Sept. 
1774, one of the delegates from the Suffolk Convention, 
held at Milton, to wait on the Governor (Gage) " to inform 
him that the county is alarmed at the fortifications mak- 
ing on Boston Neck, and to remonstrate against the same, 
and the repeated insults offered by the soldiery to persons 
passing and repassing into that town." Capt. Romans m. 
in 1725, Mrs. Hannah Osborn of Bristol, R. L, who d. 1747, 
leaving no children. In 1748 he m. (2d) Elizabeth Alden, 
by whom he had eleven children. He d. suddenly in 1778, 
while walking about his farm. 

Dr. John was b. Dorchester, 8 April, 1753. He was pre- 
pared for college in the Boston Latin School ; graduated at 
H. U. in 1772, and studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Gardner, 
of Boston. With Dr. Holbrook of Dorchester and others, 
he dressed the wounds of those injured at the battle of Bun- 
ker Hill on the evening following the action. 

On I Jan. 1776, he was com. surgeon of Col. Paul Dudley 
Sargent's (i6th) reg., and from 18 Dec. 1776, to the period 
of his resignation, 4 Aug. 1 78 1, was surgeon of Sheldon's 
(2d) reg. of light dragoons. He was with the army in the 
actions at Harlem and White Plains, and in those which pre- 
ceded the surrender of Burgoyne, as well as in many other 



252 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

engagements ; was some time commissary of his regiment, 
and during the latter part of his term of service was stationed 
on the Hudson. After leaving the army, he practised medi- 
cine in Boston ; but, his health failing, he set sail from Boston 
in June, 1800, to make a voyage, in the hope of regaining it, 
but died suddenly on the third day after leaving port. 

He m. in 1785, Sally, dau. of James Dalton, Esq., a prominent 
citizen of Boston, who survived him till 1843. They had two chil- 
dren : one, a daughter, who d. young ; the other, a son, JoHxN. 

JOHN HOMANS, M.D. 

Only son of Dr. John, whom he succ. in 1840; b. Boston, 
18 Sept. 1793; d. there suddenly, 17 April, 1868. He was 
brought up in Boston and Dorchester, was fitted for college 
at Andover, and graduated at Harvard College in 1812. 
Entering immediately upon the study of medicine, he took 
his degree of M.D. in 1815; married in 1816; and after a 
short stay in Worcester, established himself in practice in 
Brookfield, then the largest town in Worcester County. He 
soon obtained a large practice throughout the country, and 
was highly esteemed by all classes. He represented Brook- 
field in the Legislature for one or more terms, and filled 
various other offices with general satisfaction. By the advice 
of his preceptor and friend, Dr. John Gorham of Boston, he 
was induced to remove to that city, where he established him- 
self in the spring of 1829. Here he soon obtained a large 
practice, and made a great many friends. He was Presi- 
dent of the Mass. Medical Society for two years, and was one 
of the Standing Committee of the Society of the Cincinnati, 
in whose objects he always manifested the greatest interest. 

In June, 1816, he m. Caroline, dau. of Dudley and Eleanor 
(Clark) Walker, of Boston, to whom he had become engaged three 
years licfore. Slie d. 10 July, 1S67, after a married life of fifty-one 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 253 

years. They had twelve children, of whom five survived them ; 
namely — 

Charles Dudley. 

George Henry, a captain in the 45th Mass. reg., in the war of 
the Rebellion, b. 12 March, 1828, unm. 

John, b. 25 Nov. 1836, H. U. 1858, physician and surgeon of Bos- 
ton, assist, surgeon in the regular army through the civil war, 
who m. 4 Dec. 1872, Helen Amory, only dau. of William Per- 
kins, Esq., Treasurer of the Cincinnati. 

And two daughters, both unm. 

CHARLES DUDLEY HOMANS, M.D. 

Eldest son of Dr. John, whom he succ. in 1869; b. Brook- 
field, 5 Dec. 1826; d. Bar Harbor, Me., 2 Sept. 1886. He 
was fitted for college at Boston in the Latin School of that 
city; H.U. 1846 (A.B.), 1849 (M.D.) After completing his 
medical education in Europe, he returned to practise his pro- 
fession in Boston, where he was a valued citizen, a trusted 
physician, and a faithful, public-spirited worker, who held 
many positions of confidence, and commanded always the 
respect of the community. 

In April, 1862, Dr. Homans was specially detailed by Gov. 
Andrew " to the surgical assistance of the Massachusetts regi- 
ments at the seat of war;" and he was "clothed with full 
authority to act as exigencies and emergencies might arise," 
subject only " to the rules and orders of the War Depart- 
ment." The service performed by him, and by other Mass. 
surgeons who accompanied him, is thus referred to in the 
"Medical and Surgical History of the War": — 

" They were particularly charged to look after the Mass. vols. ; 
but with a zeal as creditable as it was rare, and a patriotism as con- 
spicuous as it was disinterested, they expressed their readiness and 
their desire to render their services wherever they could be most 
useful. . . . They were soon at the head of a model establishment 
for the field. After the evacuation of Yorktown and the battle of 
Williamsburg, they repaired promptly to the town, and there rendered 
important services to the wounded." 



254 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

On his return, after some weeks' service, he was thanked 
by the Governor in behalf of the Commonwealth for the great 
personal sacrifice he had made "to uphold the dignity, honor, 
and usefulness of the humane profession." In 1863 he was 
detailed for a time to the surgical assistance of the 20th Mass. 
vols. Had it rested with himself, he would have served in 
the army continuously during the war; but as his father 
was growing old, and had two other sons in the service, he 
yielded to a sense of duty in declining regular service in the 
field. 

He served a long and laborious term on the School Com- 
mittee; was one of the original appointments on the surgical 
staff of the City Hospital, where he remained for over twenty 
years; was two years President of the Mass. Medical Society; 
also President of the Mass. Humane Society, and of the Mass. 
Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; one of the Trustees of 
the Mass. School for the Feeble-Minded ; and held positions 
on the executive boards of many private charities. From 
1871 till 18S0 he was SECRETARY of the MASS. Soc. of the 
Cix,, and from 1880 till his death (18S6) Vice-Presidext. 
In all positions, as well as in all the relations of life, he was 
one whose opinion was asked, whose advice was followed, 
and whose conduct was approved by those among whom he 
lived. 

He m. 6 May, 1856, Eliza Lee, dau. of Samuel Kirkland (H. U. 
1825) and Mary Lyman (Buckminster) Lothrop of Boston. Chil- 
dren living — 

John. 

Caroline, b. 5 June, 1866. 

JOHX HOMAXS, :vi.D. 

Eldest son of Dr. Charles Dudley, whom he succ. in 1887; 
was b. Boston, 15 March, 1857; H. U. 1878; M.D. 1882. A 
practising physician in Boston. Elected Assist. Sec. of the 
Cincinnati, 4 July, 1890. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 255 

Zificon f£}ooiitv. 

Son of William and Sarah Hooker; b. Medfield, Mass., 
12 Feb. 1752; d. Newton, Mass., 24 Dec. 1840. Drummer 
of the Medfield company of "minute-men" in 1775. Dur- 
ing the Bunker Hill battle his drum was pierced by a bullet, 
and he seized the musket of a fallen companion and rushed 
into the thickest of the fight. For this act he was soon after- 
ward promoted to an ensigncy; was com. lieut. in Putnam's 
(5th) reg. II April, 1780, and served until 1783. Mr. Hooker 
was a man of strict integrity and great moral worth, and was 
never known to be at variance with any human being. 

He m. in 1779, Sarah Barber, by whom he had five sons and five 
daughters. 

ZIBEON HOOKER. 

Eldest son of Zibeon.whom he succ. in 1841 ; b. Sherborn, 
Mass., 6 April, 1780; d. there 7 Dec. 1869. 

He. m. JMary Stearns of Hopkinton, who d. 26 Feb. 1832, and 
had — 

Hiram, b. 1805, d. , and had a son, Hiram H., who resided 

in Cambridge. 
Mary Ann, b. 1806, m. Jacob Pratt. 
George B., b. 17 April, 1808, m. Hannah Kimball, and resided 

in Sherbom. 
Laur.4, b. 1809, m. Thomas Gould. 
Sybil, b. 181 1, m. David Daniels. 
Harrison G. O., b. 1812, m. Mira Whitney. 
ZiBEON, b. 1814, d. unm. 1830. 
Oliver B., b. 181 6, and resided in New York. 
David Stk4rns, b. 181 8. 
Hannah T., b. 1819, m. Aaron Weeks. 
Harlow, b. 1824, m. Sophronia Travis. 
Thankful W., b. 1826, d. unm. 
Sarah E., b. 1829, m. Lucius Cook. 



256 BIOGRAPHICAL NUTICES UF THE 

Com. ensign in Vose's (ist) reg. 2 April, 1781 ; in Smith's 
(6thj reg. 1781-83; living on a government pension in Con- 
necticut in 1820. 

i[Hici)ael esfaljriel fi}outiin. 

He was a lieut. in Bigelow's (15th) reg., serving in Rhode 
Island in 1778-79; was com. capt. 28 June, 1779, and was an 
active and zealous partisan officer; capt. and deputy quarter- 
master under Gen. St. Clair in 1791, and d. in Feb. 1802, in 
Albany, where he was superintendent of U. S. military stores. 
He was a Frenchman of singular manners and character, and 
of remarkable personal appearance.* 

i^ttijar^ .Surcomi) f^o^nt. 

He was b. Boston, and d. there 22 Jan. 1793. Com. ensign 
in Shepard's (4th) reg. 21 June, 1782; app. lieut. 2d U. S. 
inf. 4 March, 1791 ; capt. 2d sub. legion to rank from Nov. 
1792. 

THOMAS HOWE. 

Eldest and only surviving brother of R. S. Howe, whom 
he succ. in 1803 ; b. Boston, 1763 ; d. there 9 Aug. 1824. 

RICHARD SURCOMB HOWE. 

Eldest son of Thomas Howe, whom he succ. in 1825 ; 
d. in 1825-26. 

THOMAS HOWE. 

Only surviving son of Thomas, whom he succ. in 1828; 
d. Boston, I May, 1829, a;. 31. 

* See Thacher's Military Journal, p. 433. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 257 

Wiiniam p^uU. 

He was the fourth of seven children of Joseph Hull 
of Derby, Ct., and was b. 24 June, 1753. He entered Yale 
College at the age of fifteen, and graduated with honor in 
1772, having the English oration assigned to him. He first 
taught a school, and afterward studied law at Litchfield, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1775. 

In April of that year he was chosen capt. of the first com- 
pany raised in Derby, and marched with Col. Webb's regi- 
ment to Cambridge. Here Capt. Hull remained during the 
siege of Boston, and his regiment formed part of the force 
which, by occupying Dorchester Heights, compelled the 
British troops to evacuate the town of Boston. 

After this event Washington removed his army to Long 
Lsland. Col. Webb's regiment was engaged in the battles 
of Brooklyn and White Plains, and for its conduct in the 
latter it received the particular thanks of the Commander-in- 
Chief. In Dec. 1776, at the brilliant affair of Trenton, where 
Washington captured a considerable force of Hessians, Capt. 
Hull acted as field officer of the regiment, the lieut. -colonel 
and major both being absent. 

On I Jan. 1777, he was com. major in the 8th Mass. reg., 
of which Michael Jackson was colonel, and John Brooks 
lieut.-colonel. Before the battle of Princeton, where Wash- 
ington out-manceuvred Lord Cornwallis, Major Hull was 
detached with a small force to observe and impede the 
progress of the enemy. Major Hull skirmished with the 
British advance guard during the whole afternoon, and so 
delayed the enemy that Washington was materially assisted 
in his escape. 

After the army was placed in winter quarters. Major Hull 
was ordered to Boston to recruit the .regiment. In April, 
1777, he marched with 300 recruits to Ticonderoga, to join 
17 



25i> BIOGRAl'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Gen. St. Clair at that post. Here St. Clair was attacked by 
an overpowering force under Burgoyne, and was obliged to re- 
treat to the Hudson River and join Gen. Schuyler, — a move- 
ment which excited a great clamor against him. Major Hull 
wrote a letter defending St. Clair, which was published in the 
newspapers of the day. Gen. Schuyler was also obliged to 
retreat before Burgoyne, to the west bank of the Hudson. 
In this retreat Major Hull commanded the rear guard; and 
though fiercely attacked by the British and Indians, he made 
a successful resistance. For his conduct on this occasion 
Major Hull received the thanks of Gen. Schuyler. 

In the battles of 19 Sept. and 7 Oct. 1777, which resulted 
in the capture of Burgoyne's army by Gates, Major Hull 
took part. On the morning of 19 Sept. he commanded a 
picket guard of 250 men in front of the left wing of the 
camp, which afterward, by order of Gen. Arnold, was rein- 
forced with 300 more, and held its ground from noon until 
dark, losing 150 men in killed and wounded. 

Major Hull again, 7 Oct., commanded the advance guard 
in front of the left wing; and when about noon Burgoyne 
moved from his camp to attack the Americans, Major Hull 
was ordered to join his force of 250 men to three regiments 
of Arnold's right wing and Morgan's riflemen to oppose him. 
This was so successfully done, that both the first British line, 
and the second under Frazer which came to the support of 
the first, were driven back to their camp. The next day 
Burgoyne retreated to Saratoga, where he was obliged to 
surrender. After this event his regiment was ordered to join 
Gen. Washington near Philadelphia, and in Dec. the army 
went into winter quarters at Valley Forge. 

Major Hull was at this time selected for one of the as- 
sistants of Baron Steuben, who brought to the army as its 
inspector-general the discipline and drill of Frederick of 
Prussia, under whom he had served. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 259 

Major Hull, 19 May, 1778, was with a detachment sent by- 
Washington to reinforce La Fayette, who was hard pressed 
by the British at VVhitemarsh near Philadelphia. At the 
battle of Monmouth, 28 June, the 8th Mass. reg. was com- 
manded by Major Hull, the colonel being invalided, and the 
lieut. -colonel acting as adjutant to Gen. Lee. The advantage 
was with the Americans ; but it was not a victory, owing to 
the misconduct of Lee. In the winter of 1779, Lieut. -Col. 
Brooks being absent on leave. Major Hull was in command 
of the regiment, which was ordered to Poughkeepsie, at that 
time the seat of the State Government, for winter quarters. 
Hardly were they established, when orders came to move to 
Kingsbridge, on the lines near New York. This produced 
great discontent in the regiment ; a remonstrance written by 
the non-commissioned officers was addressed to the com- 
mander, and it was feared by the officers that the men would 
refuse to march. Major Hull immediately paraded the regi- 
ment, arrested the ringleader, whom he had tried by court- 
martial, and punished in the presence of the regiment, which 
then commenced its march to White Plains. Here Major 
Hull remained the whole winter, with 400 men ; and being 
eighteen miles in advance of the American forces, and in the 
face of the whole British army, his safety depended on con- 
stant vigilance. The service was so severe that 200 men with 
officers were sent from the army every ten days to relieve 
one half of the detachment. Major Hull himself visited his 
outposts every day, riding about twenty miles during the 
day, and as much every night. He was never surprised. 

In June, 1779, Washington stationed most of his troops in 
the Highlands; and Major Hull was employed in building 
four forts near West Point, when on the 14th of July he was 
ordered to join his corps to the forces of Gen. Wayne, for 
the capture of Stony Point. In the assault which followed, 
on the night of the 15th, Major Hull's detachment from the 



260 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICKS OK THE 

8th Mass. reg. was in the right cohimn, which was led by- 
Wayne himself. The assault was made with the bayonet, 
not a shot being fired, except by a party under Major Murfee, 
who were ordered to open fire on the opposite side of the 
fort, to distract the attention of the garrison. It was not a 
surprise, as has been stated by some historians, as the attack 
was made under a heavy fire of artillery and musketr}-, which 
commenced before the storming columns reached the fort. 
Major Hull was promoted, 12 Aug. 1779, to the rank of 
lieut.-colonel, and was transferred to the 3d Mass. reg. 

About this time the appointment of aide to Gen. Washing- 
ton was offered to Col. Hull, and would have been accepted 
but for the remonstrance of Baron Steuben, who requested 
him to retain his situation as inspector, which he did during 
the year 1780. 

In Jan. 1781, Col. Hull asked permission to attack the 
British post at Morrisania, on the East River, which was held 
by Col. De Lancey, with a force of about 500 Loyalists. 
Washington granted leave, though he expressed himself not 
sanguine of success. Six hundred men were assigned to Col. 
Hull for the enterprise. They were to march thirty miles over 
bad roads, with swollen streams to be crossed, and attack a 
nearly equal force about four miles in the rear of a large part 
of the British arm)'. These impediments so much delayed 
the march that the plan of a surprise failed, and the enemy 
were on the alert when Col. Hull reached Morrisania. A 
short conflict ensued, which resulted in the defeat of the 
Loyalists, with the loss of fifty-two prisoners, sixty horses, 
and a number of cattle. The barracks were set on fire, with 
a great quantity of forage belonging to the British army ; 
and though hotly pursued, Col. Hull with his prisoners re- 
treated in safety to the American lines. For the successful 
conduct of this expedition Col. Hull received the thanks of 
Washington and of Congress. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 26 1 

In July, 1 78 1, Col. Hull was stationed with his regiment 
in the Highlands, under Gen. Heath, and was appointed ad- 
jutant and inspector-general of the army at West Point, and 
performed the duties of these offices until the summer of 
1783, when, hostilities having ceased, he was ordered with 
eight companies of infantry to West Chester, to protect the 
inhabitants of that region from the refugees and Tories, until 
civil government should be organized. 

When the British troops evacuated New York, 25 Nov. 
1783, Col. Hull commanded the troops which escorted the 
Commander-in-Chief into the city, and was complimented by 
him on the excellent appearance and high state of discipline 
of his men. 

When Washington took leave of his officers in New York, 
4 Dec, Col. Hull was in command of the military escort ; and 
when, by direction of Congress, Gen. Washington disbanded 
the army, with the exception of one regiment and a corps 
of artillery. Col. Hull was selected by him for licut. -colonel 
of the regiment. 

In 1784 Col. Hull was sent by the Government to Quebec, 
to demand possession of Forts Niagara, Detroit, and Macki- 
nac, which, by the treaty, should have been delivered up a 
year before. The British commander, however, declined to 
give them up. 

Col. Hull established his residence in Newton, Mass., in 
1786, and here he began the practice of the law. When the 
militia was called out in that year, for the suppression of 
Shays's rebellion, Gen. Lincoln was placed in command, and 
Col. Hull accompanied him as a volunteer. 

In Jan. 1793, Col. Hull was appointed by the President a 
commissioner to make arrangements with the Canadian Gov- 
ernment for a treaty with the Indians in the Western country, 
with whom the United States were at war. He was instructed 
to remonstrate against their infraction of treaty pledges, and 



262 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

also against the practice of supplying the Indians with arms 
and ammunition for use against a friendly nation. Gov. 
Simcoe was civil, but was indisposed to enter into these ques- 
tions, which were happily set at rest by Wayne's victory over 
the Indians that year. 

In the winter of 1798 Col. Hull was in England; and the 
spring he passed in France, where he witnessed the proceed- 
ings of the revolutionary tribunals in Paris. 

Soon after his return to Boston, he was appointed by the 
Governor judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was 
elected major-general of the third division of the militia of the 
State, He was likewise elected Senator in the State Legisla- 
ture. These positions he held until in 1805 he was appointed 
Governor of Michigan Territory, by Prcs. Jefferson. He was 
also appointed Indian agent, an office which was then con- 
nected with that of executive magistrate. 

In 1805, with the exception of a small strip of land about 
Detroit, the islands of Mackinac and Bois Blanc, and a piece 
of ground opposite Mackinac, six miles by three in extent, all 
the present State of Michigan, as well as most of Ohio and 
Indiana, was in the possession of the Indians. 

Gov. Hull made a treaty with them in 1807, by which they 
ceded to the United States an extensive territor}' on the 
southeastern side of Michigan, in payment for which annui- 
ties were granted to the tribes. Many of the chiefs, however, 
headed by Tecumseh, refused their assent to this treaty; and 
it was believed by the traders and agents, that an extensive 
league was being formed against the Americans, to include 
all the tribes east of the Mississippi. In Feb. 18 12, Gov. Hull 
being in Washington, accounts came to him from Detroit, 
that the Indians were becoming hostile ; and he urged the 
necessity of a military force for the protection of the inhabi- 
tants of that exposed frontier. War with Great Britain was 
imminent. The President called upon the Governor of Ohio 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 263 

to furnish l,300 militia, prepared for actual service. The 
command of these troops, with the rank of brig.-gen., was 
offered to Gov. Hull by the President, but was declined. Col. 
Kingsbury, of the 4th U. S. inf., was then ordered to take 
the command, but he fell sick on his way to Washington. 
Gov. Hull, on being again applied to, reluctantly accepted 
the appointment, with no other object, as he stated, than to 
march the troops to Detroit for the protection of the inhabi- 
tants against the Indians. 

At this time the lakes were in possession of the British, 
the Indians were their allies, and the inhabitants of Canada 
outnumbered twenty to one the people of Michigan. In three 
separate memorials addressed to the War Department in 1809, 
181 1, and 1 8 12, Gov. Hull had urged the necessity of a fleet 
on Lake Erie. 

Gov. Hull, who was now also a brig.-gen., at once proceeded 
to Dayton to take command of the troops. These consisted 
of three regiments of militia under the command of Cols. 
McArthur, Findley, and Cass. They were badly armed and 
half clothed, and neither the State of Ohio nor the General 
Government had made any provision for their equipment. 
At Urbana, 10 June, Gen. Hull was joined by Lieut.-Col. 
Miller with a part of the 4th infantry, consisting of 300 
effective men, making his force then 1,500, which was the 
largest number he had at any time under his command. 
From Urbana the distance to Detroit was more than 200 
miles, through a wilderness. A road had to be cut through 
the forest by the army; bridges, causeways, and block-houses 
were built, and the latter provided with garrisons, which 
labors were borne by the army with patience. The rapids 
of the Maumee were reached about the end of June; war 
was declared by the United States on the i8th, but Gen. 
Hull received no information of it until July 2, fourteen 
days afterward, though the British commander at Maiden 



264 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

had heard of it by letters franked by an American cabinet 
officer. In consequence of the delay in transmitting to 
Gen. Hull this important intelligence, a vessel in which 
he had shipped baggage, important stores, intrenching 
tools, and the invalids of the army, was taken by the 
British. 

On the 5th of July the small army arrived at Detroit. On 
the 9th orders were received from Washington, dated fifteen 
days before, authorizing Gen. Hull to commence offensive 
operations ; and on the 12th he crossed the river into Canada. 
Gen. Hull there intrenched himself, issued a proclamation to 
the Canadians, and detached Col. McArthur to pursue the 
Indians who were in the neighborhood, and to go to the river 
Thames for provisions. He returned on the 17th with 200 
barrels of flour and some military stores. 

Meantime events were occurring which threatened to make 
the position of the American army a very dangerous one. 
These were, first, the fall of Mackinac, which had been taken 
with its garrison of sixty men by a force of 625 Canadians 
and Indians. By this event all the Indians of the North- 
west were encouraged to unite against the Americans ; 
and a body of some 1,700 Indians and members of the 
Northwest Company were soon on their march for Maiden. 
A second source of danger was the interruption of Gen. 
Hull's communications with Ohio. Lake Erie was com- 
manded by a British fleet, and there were no American armed 
vessels upon it. The wilderness between Detroit and Ohio 
was filled with hostile Indians; and there was no other source 
besides Ohio whence supplies or reinforcements could come. 
Gen. Hull had in many letters to the administration insisted 
on the occupation of the lakes as essential to military suc- 
cess, and had a right to believe that, if ordered on this duty, 
he would be supported with a naval force ; but none was pro- 
vided till two years after the fall of Detroit. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 265 

Hearing that some cattle were on the way from Ohio, 
intended for his army, Gen. Hull detached Major Van Home 
with 250 men to bring them into camp; but the party was 
attacked by the Indians, and entirely defeated. Thirdly, 
according to the original plan of the campaign, it was de- 
termined that Canada should be invaded both at Detroit 
and Niagara. The charge of one of these invasions had 
been given to Gen. Hull, and he had thus far performed 
his part. He had cut his road through the wilderness 
and had invaded Canada. He did this, relying on prom- 
ised support. He had asked for a fleet on Lake Erie, co- 
operation at Niagara, and reinforcements from Ohio ; and 
he was disappointed in all. 

As early as June 26 Gen. Dearborn was ordered to 
Albany to prepare a force for actual service in the direc- 
tion of Niagara, Kingston, or Montreal ; but so great was 
the confusion in the War Department that Dearborn did 
not know whether or not he was to command at Niagara. 

On the 26th of July the Secretary of War directs Gen. 
Dearborn to co-operate with Gen. Hull at Niagara, and 
Dearborn writes on the 28th, asking, " Who is to have 
command in Upper Canada? " No troops being collected 
at Niagara, and having no need of troops in that quarter. 
Gen. Brock, the British commander, was able to send rein- 
forcements to Maiden. No movement being made by the 
Americans on Lake Champlain, Sir George Provost was 
able to send troops to Upper Canada; and instead of co- 
operating with Gen. Hull, as he was ordered, Gen. Dearborn 
acceded to an armistice, proposed by Sir George Provost, 
by which he agreed that the troops opposed to each other 
at Niagara should act on the defensive only, thus allowing 
Brock to send reinforcements to Maiden, while he deprived 
himself of the power of aiding Gen. Hull by demonstrations 
on the Niagara frontier. 



266 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Gen. Hull found himself therefore entirely deprived of 
the promised assistance. Under these circumstances the 
safety of his army demanded the reopening of the com- 
munications with Ohio. Gen. Hull therefore recrossed the 
river on the 7th of August, leaving a sufficient force in- 
trenched to hold the British shore. 

The same day Col. Miller was detached with 600 men to 
open the road towards Ohio. About fourteen miles from 
Detroit he met with a body of British and Indians, whom 
he defeated; but such were the difficulties of the road that 
Col. Miller was obliged to return without effecting his ob- 
ject, although he was within eighteen miles of the river 
Raisin, where there was a large convoy of provisions under 
Col. Brush. On the 14th Gen. Hull sent off Cols. McArthur 
and Cass with another detachment, to try by another road 
to reach Col. Brush and escort him to Detroit with the 
supplies for the arm}'. 

While these operations were taking place in the American 
camp, Gen. Brock was moving to the relief of Maiden with 
a force of 550 men. At that place he was joined by 
Tecumseh with 1,000 warriors; and on the i6th he sent 
to Gen. Hull a summons to surrender, which the General 
refused ; and that afternoon fire was opened upon Detroit 
from Sandwich, which was returned by an American battery 
of 24-pounders. 

Early the next morning Brock crossed the river about 
five miles below Detroit, his landing being protected by a 
large force of Indians and two ships of war. His inten- 
tion was to wait in a strong position covered by his ships ; 
but, hearing of the absence of Cass and McArthur, with 500 
men, he decided on an immediate attack. He was preparing 
for an assault, when Gen. Hull surrendered the place. 

His defence for taking this step rests on the following 
propositions : — 



CIN'CINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 267 

1. An army in the situation of that of Gen. Hull on the i6th of 
August, 1 81 2, cut off from its supplies, and with no adequate means 
of opening its communications, must inevitably fall. 

2. That, in this situation, to fight would have been a useless 
expenditure of life, and would have unnecessarily exposed the in- 
habitants of the territory to Indian cruelties. 

3. That this situation was not his fault, but that of the Govern- 
ment, of Gen. Dearborn, and of circumstances for which no one is 
probably responsible. 

4. That the troops of Gen. Hull on the i6th of August were much 
inferior in number to those of his antagonist. 

5. That the provisions of the amiy were nearly exhausted, and no 
further supplies could be obtained.* 

To most of the country, who were ignorant of the true 
state of affairs, the news of the surrender came without 
warning, and the excitement was great. The Federalists, 
who opposed the war, made use of this disaster to show 
that they had been right, and threw the blame upon their 
opponents and the administration. At first the Government 
scarcely attempted to defend itself; but it soon found a man 
ready to assist it to throw the whole blame of the disaster 
upon the unsuccessful General. This was Col. Cass, who 
went to Washington and wrote his celebrated letter of 10 
Sept. 18 12, which has been the principal source of all sub- 
sequent charges against Gen. Hull, and was even received 
as evidence on his trial. 

The object of the letter was to show that the whole blame 
was chargeable to the commander; that he wanted neither 
men nor supplies, and that the British might have been 
defeated with perfect ease but for the cowardice of the Gen- 
eral. This letter was published extensively, and had great 

* It would occupy too much space to give the details which prove these 
propositions , they may be found in the following works, from which most of 
this memoir has been compiled : Report of Trial of General Hull at Albany, 
1814; Memoirs of the Campaign of 1812, by William Hull j Military and Civil 
I.ifc of General Hull, by his daughter, Mrs. Campbell, and his grandson, 
James Freeman Clarke. 



268 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

effect on the public, who did not know that Col. Cass had 
written both to his brother-in-law and to Gov. Meigs, only a 
few days before the surrender, that the army was in want of 
everything, and must perish unless assisted. 

As soon as Gen. Hull was exchanged he was placed under 
arrest, and charges for capital offences were brought against 
him. A court-martial, of which Gen. Wade Hampton was 
president, was summoned to assemble at Philadelphia, where 
Gen. Hull appeared for trial. But this court was dissolved 
by Pres. Madison without reason assigned. After Gen. 
Hull had been another year under arrest, a new court was 
assembled at Albany, 3 Jan. 18 14, of which Gen. Dearborn 
was appointed president. Both the construction and the pro- 
ceedings of this court were unfair to the accused. The man 
whose errors or misconduct had been a principal cause of 
the disaster was its president, and most of its members were 
young officers of no experience, some of them aides of Gen. 
Dearborn, and under his patronage. The proceedings of the 
court were unfair, the opinions of witnesses being received in 
evidence ; and although the best legal assistance was afforded 
to the prosecution, the counsel for the accused was not al- 
lowed to address the court. 

Charges of treason, cowardice, and neglect of duty were 
exhibited against Gen. Hull, and he was found guilty of the 
two latter, and sentenced to be shot. 

Pres. Madison approved the sentence, but remitted the 
execution of it. There was no need of its execution. The 
object was gained, which was to screen the administration 
from disgrace or ruin. Some victim was necessar}', and 
the unsuccessful General became the scapegoat for the 
President and his party. Gen. Hull was acquitted of the 
charge of treason. The charge of cowardice was substan- 
tiated by the opinions of the militia officers, who thought 
that the General looked, on the day of the surrender, as if 
he was terrified. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 269 

After the court-martial in 18 14, Gen. Hull returned to his 
farm in Massachusetts, where he passed the remainder of his 
life in agricultural pursuits. It was not until 1824 that he 
was able to procure from the War Department copies of 
documents necessary for his vindication, all his papers hav- 
ing been lost by the capture and burning of the vessel by 
which they were sent from Detroit to Buffalo. He then pub- 
lished "Memoirs of the Campaign of 1812," which, where 
they were read, had the effect of changing public opinion, 
formed as it had been from the statements of government 
newspapers and military men who, like Lewis Cass, had risen 
on the downfall of Gen. Hull. 

In 1825 a public dinner was given to Gen. Hull b}- leading 
men of Boston, to express their sympathy and respect for 
him. The same year he visited his native town of Derby, 
Conn., where he was received with much attention ; but the 
fatigues of the journey brought on an illness which proved 
fatal. He d. Nov. 25, 1825, aged seventy-two years. 

Gen. Hull was a man of fine personal appearance and of 
polished address, combined with frank and soldierly manners. 
He was of an amiable and kindly temper, and his latter days 
of trial were much soothed by an affectionate family. 

His descent from Richard'^ Hull, made a freeman of Massachu- 
setts in 1634, of New Haven in 1639, d. 1662, was through Dr. 
/ohn,'^ bapt. 24 May, 1640, first of Derby, afterward of Wallingford, 
where he was a large landholder, d. 6 Dec. 1711 ; Joseph,^ b. 1662, 
d. 1744, m. in 1691 Mary, dau. of Secretary Isaac Nicholls, who d. 
1 733 ; Joseph* b. 1694, a farmer, many years member of the General 
Assembly; Joseph^ (his father), b. 1728, d. 1775, who m. in 1749 
Eliza Clark of Lyme. (Com. Isaac Hull was grandson of this 
Joseph.) 

He m. in 1781 Sarah, only dau. of the Hon. Abraham Fuller of 
Newton, who survived him less than a year. They had a family 
of seven daughters, and one son, Capt. A. F. Hull, 9th U. S. inf., 
who was killed at the battle of Lundy's Lane, July, 1814, ae. 28. 



270 lUOGRAinilCAL NOTICES OF THE 

Rebecca Parker, dau. of Gen. Hull, m. 18 May, 1805, Samuel Clarke. 
They had Samuel C. Clarke, Rev. James Freemari Clarke, D.D., 
and four other children. 

SAMUEL CL.'VRKE CLARKE. 

Grandson of Gen. Hull, whom he succ. in 1873 ; * was b. 
Newton, Mass., 27 Feb. 1806; educated at the Boston Lath: 
School. He was engaged in the drug business in Boston 
1820-30; in South America, 1833; '" the East Indies, as 
supercargo, 1834-36; in Boston, 1836-39; in Chicago, as a 
druggist, 1839-71. He has since lived in the South, mostly 
at Marietta, Ga. 

His descent from Thomas ' Clarke, of Plymouth, Mass., b. 1623, 
d. 1698, and Susan Ring, of Plymouth, was through Andreui^ Ply- 
mouth, 1635, and Mehitable, dau. of Thomas Scottow of Boston, m. 
167 1 ; Nathaniel^ of Harwich, Mass., b. 1682, m. 1720, Abigail 
Hedge of Yarmouth; Barnal>as,*h. Harwich, Mass., 1722, shipmas- 
ter and merchant in Boston, d. 1772, m. 1748, Hepzibah, dau. of 
Thornton Barrett of Boston; Samuel,^ b. Boston, 1754, merchant 
and shipowner, major m Boston regiment, 1777, d. in 1778 of dis- 
ease contracted in R. I. campaign, m. 1778, Martha, dau. of Obadiah 
Curtis of Boston; Samuel,^ b. Boston, 1779, a physician, Dartmouth 
College, practised in Newton and Boston, d. 1830, m. m 1805, 
Rebecca Parker, dau. of Gen. William Hull, of Newton. 

Samuel m. 4 June, 1849, at Mackinac, Mich., Lucinda M., dau. of 
John Lamed of Providence, R. L They had — 

Edith, b. Chicago, 28 Aug. 185 1, d. there 26 Jan. 1862. 

iEpI)ratm ^unt. 

He was b. Watertown, Mass., 5 Nov. 1758; d. Albany, 16 
Oct. 1805 ; brother of Capt. Thomas Hunt. Com. licut. in H. 
Jackson's (9th) reg. 9 Aug. 1781. He left a widow, Catha- 
rine, two sons, and a daughter in .Albany. 

* Mr. Clarke was elected a member in 1S29; but owing to absence from the 
country, he did not sign the articles until 1873. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSKTTS. 2/1 

His descent from Enoch ' Hunt, of Weymouth, a first settler, was 
through Epliraim^ d. 22 Feb. 1686-87, se. 77, and Anna Richards; 
Thomas^ of Boston, b. 1648, d. 11 Feb. 1721-22, who m. Judith 
Torrey; Samuel,^ of VVatertown, b. 9 Feb. 1689, d. 1774, m. Mary 
Langdon, 24'~April, 1712 ; John^ (his father), b. 19 Nov. 1716, d. 
19 Jan. 1777, and Ruth Fessenden. 



LEWIS CASS HUNT, 

He was grand-nephew of Lieut. Ephraim Hunt, whom he 
succ. by election in 1883 ;* b. Fort Howard, Green Bay, Wis., 
23 Feb. 1824; d. Fort Union, 6 Sept. 1886. His father, Lieut. 
Samuel W. Hunt, U. S. A., died at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 
near St. Louis, in 1829, and the boy was taken to an uncle's 
in Detroit. When a lad of fifteen, after a short term at 
Kenyon College, finding that his uncle had been much em- 
barrassed by the financial depression of 1837, he proceeded to 
St. Louis, and found employment as clerk on a Mississippi 
steamboat, where he learned the river business as a prepara- 
tion for a commission house. Near the close of his engage- 
ment, the steamer was " snagged," sunk, and abandoned by 
her other officers. He stuck to the wreck with a few of the 
crew, succeeded in saving the valuable engines and other 
property, and then entered the commission house of Kim- 
ball & Co., of New Orleans. 

Before going on the river, he had applied for a cadetship 
at West Point, but was refused the appointment on the ground 
that his brother had graduated there. After he had been in the 

* lie was ill, at the time of his election, from disease contracted in the ser- 
vice, and died before he was able to attend the annual meeting and sign the 
articles. In view of all the circumstances it was voted at the annual meeting 
in July, 1890, that his name be placed on the rolls as though he had become a 
duly qualified member. There was a precedent for such action. Rev. Thos. 
Thacher was elected in 1812; he died before signing the articles, and at the 
next annual meeting it was voted that his name be enrolled " as having been a 
member." 



272 r.KJGRAI'llICAL NOTICES OK THE 

house of Kimball & Co. for a year and more, he was surprised 
at the receipt of a cadet appointment, which, as he now had 
flattering business prospects, he was disposed to decline ; but 
Mr. Kimball urged him to secure the education thus ofifered, 
and said that his place in the house should be open to 
him after his graduation, should he then desire it; and he 
accepted. 

The story of his long-delaj'ed appointment was a curious 
one, and will perhaps serve as a partial illustration of his 
character. When he went on board the steamboat at Cincin- 
nati, en route to St. Louis, he found himself near two gentle- 
men who were earnestly discussing some question of political 
history. Observing that he was attentive and interested, one 
of tlie gentlemen playfully appealed to him on a disputed 
question of fact, and of principle involved, to which he 
promptly replied, to the evident surprise and gratification of 
his questioner. Then followed a long conversation, in which 
the lad was subjected to a close examination. When he was 
about leaving, the gentleman said, " So you are going to St. 
Louis, and are a grandson of Col. Hunt [who died near St. 
Louis, in command of the troops there, in 1808] ; now, if you 
ever want anything in which I can aid you, don't forget to 
apply to me; my name is Thomas H. Benton." The young 
man did not presume upon this, but made his application for 
West Point to the Representative from St. Louis. It was 
many months after his application was rejected that the Rep- 
resentative applied for a midshipman's appointment, instead, 
and requested Senator Benton's aid. On hearing the name 
and identifying the applicant, Mr. Benton immediately said, 
" He shall have an appointment, and the one he asked for, 
to West Point, or I will know the reason why ! " and soon 
procured it. 

Entering the Military Academy in 1843, he graduated in 
1847, was appointed a 2d lieutenant of infantry, and pro- 



CLNCINXATI UF MASSACHUSETTS. 273 

ceeded to Mexico, where he served until the end of the war. 
In the winter of 1847-48 he was one of the party of officers 
that ascended the volcano of Popocatapetl, — a circumstance 
that afterward proved of interest and pleasure to him, as it 
led to an acquaintance with Humboldt, from whom he re- 
ceived many kindnesses. While in Mexico he contracted 
camp diarrhoea, from which he never recovered. He served 
on the Canada frontier 1848-52, and in Washington Territory 
against the Trinity River Indians until broken down by his 
Mexican disease. He was on sick-leave 1854-58; most of 
the time under treatment in Europe. On his return he 
marched from Fort Leavenworth to Washington Territory, 
and was promoted capt. 4th inf., May, 1S55. 

In 1859 Gen. Harney occupied San Juan Island, in Puget 
Sound, the ownership of which was in dispute with Great 
Britain, and placed a company of the 4th infantry, under 
Capt. Pickett, afterward the well-known Confederate general, 
in possession. This threatened serious consequences, as the 
British had a naval force there sufficient to give them control. 
Harney refused to recede from his position ; but Gen. Scott, 
who was sent to arrange matters, soon came to an under- 
standing with the admiral. It was agreed that there should 
be a joint occupation ; and a company of British marines, 
under Capt. Bazalgette, was landed on the island. As there 
had been much hot feeling excited on both sides, Gen. Scott 
deemed it important that the commanders of the two com- 
panies should be men of tact and discretion. He selected 
Capt. Hunt's company to relieve Pickett's ; the British and 
American captains became excellent friends, and very soon 
all ill-feeling passed away. 

In 1861 Capt. Hunt's regiment was ordered to the Army 

of the Potomac, and served at the siege of Yorktown and 

the battle of Williamsburg. Appointed colonel 92d N. Y. 

vols. 22 May, he took command, 24 May, and was se- 

iS 



274 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

vercly wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, 31 May. He re- 
sumed command of his regiment in Sept., was engaged in 
the operations about Suffolk, Va., and in several expeditions 
to the Blackwater. He joined Gen. Foster's e.xpedition into 
North Carolina, and was distinguished in the actions at 
Kinston, 15 Dec, Whitehall, 17 Dec, and Goldsborough, 
18 Dec. 1862, — for which he was appointed brig.-gen. 
of vols. 

He continued in command of his brigade until July, 1863, 
when, disabled for field service by his wound and disease, he 
was placed in charge of the draft rendezvous in Connecticut. 
In March, 1864, he was selected by Gen. Grant for impor- 
tant special duty in Kansas and Missouri. In 1864 he was 
ordered to the command of the defences of New York har- 
bor. On 16 Jan. 1866, he was mustered out of the volunteer 
service. After the war he served on the frontiers, in Texas, 
on the plains in Dakota, Utah, and Washington Territories. 

He was promoted major 14th inf., 8 June, 1863; trans- 
ferred to 4th inf, 21 Aug. 1866; lieut.-col. 20th inf. 29 
March, 1868; col. 14th inf, 19 May, 1881. 

Although a life-martyr to the disease he had contracted 
in Mexico in 1848, he continued almost steadily on duty 
after his return from Europe, until he became so much re- 
duced that, as a last resort, he was advised to try the dry 
climate of New Mexico. He left San Diego, Cal., in the 
latter part of Aug., 1886, for Fort Union, which post he 
reached on the last day of that month. The intense heat 
of the weather and unexpected delays in the journey so ex- 
hausted his strength that he died a week after his arrival, and 
after a service of nearly forty years. 

For his gallant and meritorious services in various bat- 
tles and in the field during the war, he received the suc- 
cessive brevets of major, lieut.-col., col., and brig.-gen. in 
the army. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 275 

Gen. Hunt ra. in i860, Abby, dau. of Gen. Silas Casey, U.S.A. 
His wife d. in Ann Arbor, Mich., six montlis before her husband. 
They left issue, surviving — 

Bessie Perry, b. 1861. 

Lewis Casey, b. 1863. 

Robert Herrick, b. 1865. 

Henry Jackson, b. 1869. 

He was b. VVatertown, Mass., Sept. 1754; d. Bellefontaine, 
Mo., 18 Aug. 1808. He served in the Watertown company 
of Gardner's re'g., which marched to Lexington, ig April, 
1775, reaching the "meeting-house" there just as Lord 
Percy's brigade joined the one retreating from Concord. In 
the pursuit, as young Hunt states in a letter, he "got sev- 
eral shots at them." Soon after he was appointed sergt. in 
Craft's company, of the same regiment, and served with it 
at Bunker Hill. In Jan., 1776, he was appointed ensign in 
Bond's (25th Mass.) reg., and served with it in the Canada 
campaign. The service was severe, the exposure great, and 
few lived to return to Boston, Col. Bond himself dying at 
Ticonderoga. Ensign Hunt, broken down by hard service 
and disease (small-pox), was sent home in Dec, 1776, and 
was soon after appointed a lieut. in Col. Henry, Jackson's 
i6th Mass., afterward consolidated with the 9th, and finally 
numbered the 4th reg. He was promoted capt. -lieut. I Feb. 
1777, and capt. March i, 1779. In Oct., 1777, the regiment 
proceeded to Lancaster, Pa., and afterward to Valley Forge. 
It was the first to enter Philadelphia when the British evacu- 
ated the city the following June. The next day Capt. Hunt 
was sent with twenty-five men to ascertain their line of re- 
treat. Crossing the Delaware at Cooper's Ferry, he followed 
their rear-guard closely until sunset, ascertained that they 
had taken the Monmouth road, returned to Philadelphia, and 



2/6 JIIUGRAI'HICAL NUTICES Of THE 

reported to the generals. The next day the regiment crossed 
at the same ferry, and was soon followed by the troops under 
Gen. Charles Lee. On the morning of the battle of Mon- 
mouth, it came upon the rear of the enemy in position, and 
met La Fayette and Steuben (who seem to have been recon- 
noitring alone in advance) in full flight, closely pursued by 
the i6th British light dragoons. Capt. Hunt says: — 

" They fell into our rear, and ordered us to form against the horse. 
The baron had lost his hat, and one of our soldiers got it for him. 
We formed line, with orders from the colonel to reserve our fire. 
The dragoons, however, wheeled and went off. We then formed 
platoons and advanced, when the enemy opened a cannonade, but 
their shot mostly went over us. Looking to the rear, I found that 
Gen. Lee's troops were retreating ; and for his conduct that day he 
was afterward suspended. Our regiment had to retreat also, until 
we met the Commander-in-Chief, — a joyful sight to me, for the 
British were coming on rapidly, — and the battle soon commenced. 
. . . Night came on ; we slept on our arms, and the British re- 
treated before daylight. Our regiment lost twelve stout men by 
the heat only ; the British lost many in that way. We then marched 
through the Terseys to King's Ferry and White Plains ; soon after 
accompanied Sullivan to Rhode Island, and were engaged in the 
battle of Quaker Hill, near Newport, our regiment losing eight offi- 
cers, and forty-five privates killed and wounded." 

Capt. Hunt now saw much hard service. In 1779 he was 
wounded in the capture of Stony Point. In P'eb. 1781, 
Washington organized three select battalions of" light infan- 
try." Hunt's was one of the eight New England companies 
that constituted Gimat's battalion, " which was probably the 
finest in the Continental army at Yorktown or anywhere 
else." * It served throughout the Virginia campaign under 
La Fayette, and was distinguished at the affair of Green 
Springs, under Wayne. At the siege of Yorktown, when on 

* " The Yorktown Campaign," by Prof. Johnston : Harper's, iSSi. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 277 

14 Oct. Washington determined to carry by assault the two 
British redoubts nearest the York River on the American right, 
one was assigned to the veteran French regiments " Gatenois," 
and " Royal Deuxponts," under Baron de Viomenil (the 
storming party consisting of their grenadier and chasseur 
companies, led by Count William de Deuxponts), and the 
other to the " light infantry," under Col. Alexander Hamil- 
ton, — Gimat's battalion having the post of honor. Both 
commands, under the general direction of La Fayette, ad- 
vanced promptly at the given signal. The French, stopping 
to remove abatis, lost ninety-two men ; the Americans, rush- 
ing over these obstructions, lost only thirty-four, killed and 
wounded. Both works were gallantly carried. Of Gimat's 
battalion the colonel himself, Capt. OIney of R. I., and Hunt 
of Mass., and Lieut. Mansfield of Conn, were wounded with 
the bayonet. This was the last severe fighting of the Revolu- 
tion. Washington in general orders unstintedly praised the 
troops engaged, officers and men ; La Fayette declared that 
his " light infantry " were " equal to the best troops in the 
world ; " and the gallant Viomenil complimented them in his 
official report. Count de Rochambeau, the French general-in- 
chief, petitioned Louis XVL to restore to the Gatenois regi- 
ment, in recognition of this exploit, their old and honored 
name and motto, " Auvergne, sans tache;" which the king 
did, writing on the petition, " Good for Royal Auvergne." 

A commission was issued by Gov. Bowdoin of Massachu- 
setts, 18 Nov. 1786, appointing Hunt "captain in the troops 
raised by this Commonwealth for the service of the United 
States ; this to constitute a sufficient warrant itiitil a eomniis- 
sion is issued by the Secretary at War." Another commission 
was issued to him by Arthur St. Clair, 2 April, 1787, as Presi- 
dent of Congress, appointing him a capt. in the 2d reg. in 
the army of the United States, from 20 Oct. 1786. 

The constitutional government of 1789 adopted the army 



278 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of the Confederacy. Hunt was again commissioned as capt. 
in the 2d reg. from 4 March, 1791, and as major 2d sub. 
legion, 18 Feb. 1793. He was engaged in Wayne's Indian 
campaign of 1794, promoted lieut.-col. ist inf., i April, 1802, 
and colonel of the same regiment 11 April, 1803. After 
Wayne's campaign he commanded at Fort Defiance, O. ; 
Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Fort Industry (Toledo, O.) ; Detroit and 
Mackinac, Mich. When the territory of Louisiana was trans- 
ferred by France to the United States, he crossed the Missis- 
sippi with his regiment, and established his headquarters at 
Bellefontaine, above St. Louis, near the mouth of the Mis- 
souri, where he d. 18 Aug. 1808. 

He was the son ol John of Watertown (H. U. 1734) and Ruth 
(Fessenden) Hunt; was a brother of Lieut. Ephraim Hunt, also an 
original member of the Mass. Society. He m. 16 Aug. 1784, Eunice, 
dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Sanderson) Wellington of Waltham. 
They had — 

George, b. 1785, d. early. 

Henry Jackson, b. 1788, m. Ann, dau. of Angus Mackintosh of 
Moy, chief of Clan Mackintosh and " captain of Clan Chat- 
tan." He d. 1827, first mayor of Detroit. 

Ruth, b. 1790, m. Dr. Abraham Edwards. 

George, b. i 791. 

Thomas, b. 1793, in U. S. A., war of 1812, fought at Chippewa, 
Niagara (where he was wounded). La Cole Mill, etc., resigned 
1836, d. Detroit, 1838. 

Abby W^., b. 1797, m. 181 2, Capt. afterward Col. Josiah Snelling, 
U. S. A. (Her son Lieut. James G. served in the Mexican 
war from Palo Alto to the Valley of Mexico, was brevetted lieut. 
for Cherubusco, capt. for Molino del Rey, — he was in storm- 
ing party and desperately wounded, — d. capt. loth inf 1855.) 

John Elliot, b. 1798, d. Toledo, O., 1877. (His son Lewis C, 
capt. 67th Ohio inf., led his company in assault on Fort 
Wagner, S. C, 18 July, 1863, and his regiment in assault on 
Fort Gregg, lines of Petersburg, Va., 2 April, 1865.) 

Samuel W., b. 1799, d. lieut. 3d inf. at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 279 

n Sept. 1829, m. 1818, Julia Herrick of Plattsburg, N. Y., and 
had Henry J., U. S. k.,- Lewis C, U. S. A., zxiA Julia H. 

Charles C. P., b. 1802. 

Mary L., b. 1803, m. Tunis S. Wendell of Detroit, d. in Detroit 
(son Capt. Charles E., ist Mich, inf., killed 30 Aug. 1862, 
assault of Stonewall Jackson's line, second Bull Run). 

Eliza M., b. 1804, m. James G. Soulard of St. Louis, Mo. 

HENRY JACKSON HUNT. 

Son of Samuel \V. and Julia (Herrick) Hunt, and grandson 
of Col. Thomas Hunt, whom he succ. in 1867; was b. in 
Detroit, Mich., 14 Sept. 1819, and d. in Washington, D. C, 
II Feb. 1889. He, entered the U. S. Military Academy in 
1835; was appointed 2d lieut. of the 2d artillery in 1839, 
and 1st licut. in 1846. He served in the war with Mexico 
(1846-48) in Duncan's battery A, 2d artillery, and was en- 
gaged in the siege of Vera Cruz, the capture of San Antonio, 
the battles of Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey, the 
storming of Chapultepec and Garita San Cosme, and the cap- 
ture of the city of Me.\ico. At Molino del Rey he received 
two wounds. In 1852 he was promoted to be captain; and 
during the years 1856-59 he served as a member of the 
board to revise the system of " Instruction for Field Artil- 
lery." He was author of the new system of artillery tactics 
recommended by the board, adopted by the War Depart- 
ment, and used during the war of the Rebellion. His work 
forms the basis of the present tactics for all arms in our ser- 
vice. During the years 1861-62 he was president of the 
board to test projectiles and rifled field-guns ; also a member 
of the boards of 1862 and 1867 on the "Armament of Forti- 
fications," and president of the " Permanent Artillery Board " 
of 1867, which prepared the plan for the organization of the 
artillery schodl at Fort Monroe. 

The record of his services during the war of the Rebellion 



2So BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OK THE 

covers the operations of the Army of the Potomac from the 
battle of Bull Run in 1861 to the surrender of Lee on 9 April, 
1865. He was promoted to be major of the 5th artillery 
early in 1861, and soon after colonel and aide-de-camp to 
Gen. McClellan. He organized the reserve artillery of the 
Army of the Potomac, and commanded it until 5 Sept. 1862, 
when he was appointed chief of artillery of that army, and 
served in that capacity until May, 1865. On 15 Sept. 1862, 
he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers " for meri- 
torious services;" in 1863, lieutenant-colonel of the 3d ar- 
tillery; and in 1869, colonel of the 5th artillery. 

His brevet appointments for service in the two wars were 
as follows : captain, " for gallant and meritorious conduct in 
the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco ; " major, " for gal- 
lant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec; " 
colonel, " for gallant and meritorious services in the battle 
of Gettysburg;" brigadier-general, "for gallant and meri- 
torious services during the siege of Petersburg, and in the 
campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent 
army under Gen. R. E. Lee;" major-general, for "gallant 
and distinguished conduct in the battle of Gettysburg, and 
for faithful and meritorious services in the campaign from 
the Rapidan to Petersburg, Va." 

He had command in the Lidian Territory in 1865-66. In 
April, 1866, he was " honorably mustered out of volunteer 
service," and returned to the command of the 5th artillery. 
He had charge of the frontier on the Canadian border east 
of Lake Ontario during the disturbances in May, 1870. He 
broke up the armed Fenian organizations, turned in their 
arms to the U. S. Arsenal, collected the men, some 1,400 
in number, and sent them to their homes without expense 
to the Government. He was in command of the District 
of North Carolina from July to Sept. 1870, the Governor 
having proclaimed it to be in a state of insurrection on ac- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 28 I 

count of Ku-Klux outrages. In 1875 he was placed in com- 
mand at Charleston, S. C. His energetic suppression of the 
riots in that city immediately following the presidential elec- 
tion led to his recall (presumably for political reasons) until 
the electoral commission made its report, when he was or- 
dered back to his post without being informed as to the 
nature of the charges, if any, made against him. 

He was placed on the retired list 14 Sept. 1883, after an 
uninterrupted service of forty-four years. Congress soon 
after passed a bill to raise him to the full rank of major- 
general ; but Pres. Arthur vetoed it, apparently for the sole 
purpose of making his action consistent v.ith that taken by 
him in the Fitz-John Porter case. On 15 May, 1885, the 
President appointed Gen. Hunt governor of the Soldiers' 
Home in the District of Columbia, which position he held 
at the time of his death. 

In publishing his death to the army, the Secretary of War 
(Mr. Endicott) said: "The conspicuous record of this gallant 
veteran, the survivor of two wars, who, though retired from ac- 
tive service, was yet on duty under the orders of the President 
when he died, calls for more than a passing notice. His ser- 
vice in peace, no less than in war, was distinguished by zeal, 
fidelity, and thoroughness. His personal character was such 
that his memory will ever be cherished by those with whom 
he served. He was the chief of artillery of the Army of the 
Potomac; and within a few years has followed to the grave 
those great captains under whom he organized and com- 
manded the largest, most perfectly equipped, and effective 
body of artillery that the history of warfare records. It is 
needless to recite his deeds. The army of to-day knows them 
well; the army of the future will find them in history; they 
may be read in the six brevets given him for his service in 
the Mexican war and the war of the Rebellion." 

A writer in the " Army and Xa\\- Journal " has said very 



282 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

happily that Gen. Hunt " always seemed a compound of 
Thackeray's three best characters, — Col. Nevvcome, Major 
Dobbin, and Gen. Lambert, — modest as he was learned, and 
sympathetic as he was brave." 

One who knew him well says: "There was probably no 
officer in the United States army who was more popular 
with both officers and men than Gen. Hunt. Modest, un- 
assuming, warm-hearted, and just to all, he was indeed the 
true type of a soldier and a gentleman. His record during 
the Mexican and civil wars entitled him, in the opinion of 
foreign military men, as well as those of his own country, 
to the first rank among artillerists. He will live in history 
as the general who at Gettysburg commanded the batteries 
(numbering a hundred guns) that checked the famous charge 
of Pickett and insured to the Union arms a glorious victory." 

Prof. Mahan, in his lecture on that battle, said: "Gen. 
Hunt saved the day at Gettysburg." William E. Birkhimer 
says: "His reports and other official communications re- 
garding the organization for and administration of artillery 
in campaign, its proper function in war and employment 
on the battle-field, written during the Rebellion, have never 
been surpassed, either in comprehensive grasp of the sub- 
ject or its practically useful treatment, by any officer in any 
arm)'." 

Gen. Hunt greatly valued his connection with this Society, 
and was always eager to perform his part in any work which 
tended to promote the objects of the order. 

He m. (ist) 18 Dec. 1851, Emily C, dau. of Gen. E. de Russy, 
U. S. engineers, who d. May 12, 1857, by whom he had — 

Emily C, b. 1852, d. 1873. 

Henry Jackson, b. 1855, d. May, 18S6. He graduated at the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1875 ; was appointed ensign, 1878 ; served 
with distinction in the Jeannette Relief Arctic expedition in 1881-83 l 
joined the Greeley Search Expedition in 1S84, from which he 



CI^■CINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 283 

returned in broken health to die two years later. He m. 27 June, 
1883, Henrietta, dau. of Adj. -Gen. R. C. Drum, U. S. A., by whom he 
had Richard C. D., b. 14 April, 1884; Heiiry Jackson, b. 31 Dec. 
1885. 

Gen. Hunt m. (2d), 27 Dec. i860, Mary Bethune, dau. of Gen. 
Henry Knox Craig, chief of ordnance, U. S. A., and a great- 
granddaughter on her mother's side of George and Mary Faneuil 
Bethune of Boston, Mass., by whom he had — 

CoxwAY Bethune, civil engineer, graduate of Troy Polytechnic. 

Maria Bethune. 

JuLL4 Herrick. 

Presley O i iipi «M -. MAAA«a 

John Elliott. Q 

Jane Bethune. 

Joljn ?i^urlf, Jr. 

He was b. Boston, 1760; d. there 21 Aug. 1784. Com. 
ensign in H. Jackson's (9th) reg. 18 June, 1781. 

His descent from John"^ ////ra' of Boston, 1639, d. 23 Sept. 1690, 
and wife Mary, was through yizci?^ - of Charlestown, 1670, d. 7 Sept. 
1694, as. 41, who m. 21 Dec. 1675, ^1^° Willson ; Jacob? b. 21 Sept. 
1676, d. 23 Sept. 1749, who m. Eliza Tufts j Jacob* A. Boston, 1768, 
who m. (in London) Eliza Mason; &nAJohii^ (his father), b. 
Boston, 9 Dec. 1727, H. U. 1747, sec. to Gov. Went\vorth of 
New Hampshire, member of the Provincial Council, d. 1809, who 
m. in 1755, Eliza Foster. 

<ffirorflc tnflcrsoll. 

He served in Gridley's artillery at Bunker Hill; was com. 
1st lieut. in Crane's artillery, 10 June, 1779, and continued 
with the army until it was disbanded in 1783 ; was app. lieut. 
of U. S. artillery, 4 March, 1791 ; capt. U. S. artillerists and 
engineers, April, 1793; and was major from 8 July, 1802, 
to I Dec. 1804. He d. Keene, N. H., in July, 1805, s. 51. 

GEORGE GOLDTHWAIT INGERSOLL, D.D. 

Only son of George, whom he succ. in 1818 ; was b. Boston, 
4 July, 1796; d. Keene, N. H., 16 Sept. 1863; H. U. 1815. 



284 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Pastor of the Unitarian Church, BurHngton, Vt., 30 May, 
1822, to 31 March, 1844; and of the Unitarian Society 
in East Cambridge, 5 Dec. 1847, to 14 Oct. 1849. He 
received the degree of D.D. from H. U. in 1845. 

He m. 14 Oct. 1822, Harriet, dau. of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst of 
Lebanon, N. H., and had — 

Allen Parkhurst, b. 10 Nov. 1S23, Vt. U. 1S43, d. 3 Sept. 1859. 

Caroline Haslett. 

ilmasa Satfeson. 

Son of Col. Michael; b. Newton, Mass., 5 June, 1765. 
Com. ensign in his father's (8th) reg. 13 Oct. 1782. After 
the war he settled in New York, and was president of a bank 
in that city. 

His descent from Eihaan/^ Jackson of the parish of Whitechapel, 
London, Eng.,who came to ^Lassachusetts in 1640, d. 17 July, 1681, 
and his wife Frances, was through Sebas,- b. 1643, d. 6 Nov. i6go, 
who m. 19 April, 16 71, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Baker; Eihvat-d,^ b. 
12 Sept. 1672, d. 27 March, 1748, and wife Mary, who d. 1753; 
Michael* b. 28 Feb. 1709, d. 27 Aug. 1765, who m. Phebe Patten, 
Oct. 1 733 ; and Col. Michael,^ his father. 

By his 2d wife, ■ Phelps, Amasa had ten children. His eldest 

son, Charles, m. Elizabeth Castle, and had two sons. 

(KJjarlcs JacR.son. 

Brother of Amasa, and son of Col. Michael; b. Newton, 
Mass., 4 Jan. 1767; d. unm. in Georgia in 1801. He began 
service in his father's regiment (the 8th) as a drummer or 
fifer, in 1777, when only ten years of age. On 4 Feb. 1783, 
at the age of sixteen, he received a commission as ensign. 

CHARLES E. JACKSON. 

Son of Hon. Ebenezer Jackson, and grand-nephew of En- 
sign Charles, whom he succ. 1S90; was b. Walnut Gro\'c, 
Middlctown, Ct., 25 Jan. 1849. He was educated at St. 



CINCINNATI UK MASSACHUSETTS. 285 

Paul's School, Concord, N. H. He has been the head of 
the firm of C. E. Jackson & Co., bankers, Middletown, Ct., 
during the past eleven years ; Vice-President of the Middle- 
sex Banking Co. of Middletown for eight years; Trustee of 
the same company fifteen years; Trustee of the Berkeley 
Divinity School twenty-one years ; Treasurer and Trustee of 
the Russell Library Co. for a number of years ; and has held 
many other positions of trust and responsibility in connection 
with charitable and religious organizations in Middletown. 

He m. 12 June, 1873, Evelyn, dau. of Edward A. Quiiitard of 
New York. Children — 

Ch.'^rles Eben, b. 22 -April, 1874, d. 15 Aug. 1877. 

Edward Quintard, b. 5 July, 1875. 

Robert Fenwick, b. 18 Dec. 1877. 

John Gillespie, b. 12 Feb. 1880. 

Evelyn Quintard, b. 28 Feb. 1882. 

M.\RV Matilda, b. 30 July, 1883. 

Wm. Leigh Peirce, b. 18 Dec. 1887. 

WiNTHROP Alsop, b. 10 March, 18S9. 

He was b. Newton, Mass., 23 July, 1753; d. Watertown, 
Mass., 10 Dec. 1833. He was in the Lexington battle; 
was in Foster's artillery Co. at Bunker Hill and at Dorchester 
Heights; was sergt. in Bryant's Co., and commanded a small 
redoubt at Fort Washington, where he was made prisoner, 
16 Nov. 1776; was exchanged in about six months, and 
joined Conway's brigade in New Jersey, which had several 
skirmishes with the enemy; and having pointed the cannon 
which blew up a British vessel on the North River, was pro- 
moted to a lieutenancy. After the fall of Capt. Bryant at 
Brandywine, where all the officers and half the men were 
killed or wounded, he took command of the company, which 
he retained till the close of the war, and received the thanks 
of Gen. Knox for his bravery. Com. 1st lieut. 12 Sept. 



286 BlUGKAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

1778, he was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, 
and had charge of the laboratory at the siege of Yorktown. 
Major of U. S. artillery 4 June, 1798, to 30 April, 1803, and 
commander of Fort Independence, Boston Harbor; and after- 
ward warden of the State Prison in Charlcstown. VlCE- 
Pres. of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati 1832-33. 

His descent from Edward^ and Mar}' Jackson (see Amasa) was 
through £d'war(/,* b. i Oct. 1698, d. i July, 1 738, who m. Abigail 
Gale ; y^'J'/wa * (his fiither), b. 26 April, 1726, d. 1810, who m. in 
March, 1749, Huldah Fuller. 

Daniel m. (ist) i Feb. 1 782, Lucy Remington. She d. 22 Jan. 
1813. He m. (2d) 25 Oct. 1813, Dolly Davis, and had five sons 
and three daughters. 

DANIEL JACKSON. 

Eldest son of Major Daniel, whom he succ. in 1834; b. 
Newton, Mass., 30 Aug. 1785 ; d. 31 May, 1835. He was a 
trader, and lived in North Carolina many years. 

He m. in Newbem, N. C, in Dec. 1829, Martha G. T., dau. of 
Capt. David Stanwood of Gloucester, Mass. They had — 
Francis. 
Daniel, b. 25 March, 1S34, m. 5 Oct. 1857, Lucy A. Langsford, 

and had three children, of whom only one, Daniel D., b. i Aug. 

1870, is now living. He entered the Institute of Technology, 

Boston, i88g. 

FRANCIS JACKSON. 

Eldest son of Daniel, whom he succ. in 1S70; b. Newbern, 
N. C, 15 Feb. 1 83 1. He was educated at West Newton, 
Mass., and Portland, Me. Resides in Lanesville, Mass., and 
is engaged with his brother Daniel in the dry goods and 
clothing business. Has been treasurer and clerk of the 
Lanesville Universalist Parish during the last seven years, 
and treasurer and librarian of the library association for 
eight years. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 287 

He m. 15 Jan. 1865, Sophia A., dau. of Reuben Tarr, Rockport, 
Mass. They had — 

Ethel S., b. 20 .'\ug. 1867. 
Frances A., b. 17 Jan. 1874. 
Martha A., b. 27 Feb. 1876. 

lBiitnt}tv Jacfeson. 

Son of Col. Michael; b. Newton, Mass., 18 Dec. 1763; d. 
Middletown, Ct, 31 Oct. 1837. Com. 2d lieut. Crane's artil- 
lery, 27 June, f78i. He served in that corps four years. He 
m. Charlotte Pierce of South Carolina, and had six sons and 
four daughters. 

EBENEZER JACKSON. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Ebenezer, whom he succ. in 1857; b. 
Savannah, Ga., 31 Jan. 1796; d. Middletown, Ct., 17 Aug. 
1874. Educated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore ; studied 
law in Litchfield, adm. to the bar in 1827; member of the 
Ct. Legislature from Middletown, 1829-32; member of the 
U. S. House of Representatives from Connecticut, 1834-35. 
He was a faithful and devoted member of the Church of the 
Holy Trinity, formerly Christ Church, in Middletown. For 
forty-one years he was an officer of the parish, and for ten 
years the senior warden. In a sermon delivered after Mr. 
Jackson's death, the Rev. Walter Mitchell said: — 

" I can add nothing to the power of an example which is our 
common treasure. Here in this city, where so much of his life was 
spent in constant, unostentatious, quiet usefulness, where young and 
old have felt in him the value of a stainless name and the power of 
a Christian courtesy to make pure and sweet the daily atmosphere 
of common life, there are not needed many words of testimony." 

He m. (ist) Eliza Ann Harper of Philadelphia, by whom he had 
five children ; namely — 

Mary Charlotte, b. 17 Aug. 1823, deceased. 
Elizabeth Harper, b. 24 Jan. 1825, deceased. 



288 UlUGKAl'llILAL NOTICES UF THE 

Arthur Harper, b. i Nov. 1826, d. 1869, m. Mary Thome, and 
had four children. His eldest son, Arthur Harper Jackson, 
was elected in 1890 as the successor of Hon. Ebenezer. 

Robert Mitchell, b. 16 Sept. 1828, deceased. 

Harriette Fenwtck, b. 19 Oct. 1830, m. Ernest Giraud, and 
has no children. 

He m. (2d) Hannah Sage Hubbard of Middletown, Ct., by whom 
he had seven children ; namely — 

Mary Selina, b. 8 Aug. 1841. 

Eliza Ann, b. ii July, 1843, d. 18S8, m. Rev. James W. Bradin, 
and had seven children. 

Robert Nesmith, b. 11 March, 1845, m. Sarah E. Law, and has 
four children. 

Sophia Hamlln, b. 30 March, 1847, d. 9 March, 1877. 

Charles Eben, m. Evelyn Quintard, and has eight children. 

Catherine Frances, b. 20 March, 1851. 

Margaret Ellen, b. 25 Jan. 1853. 



^tnvs Jatfeson. 

The first Treasurer of the Mass. Society of the Cin- 
CIXN.\TI; was b. Boston (bapt. 25 Oct.), 1747. Joseph, his 
father, commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Co. in 1752, colonel of the Boston reg. 1761-63, was a dis- 
tiller in Boston, and died there 10 April, 1790, je. 83. He 
m. I May, 1732, Susannah Gray, with whom he lived hap- 
pily for nearly sixty years. Young Jackson having raised 
a military company in Boston, of which he was chosen cap- 
tain, was ordered with it to Rhode Island in April, 1777, 
and was on duty there some weeks. He had been com. 
by Congress (12 Jan. 1777) colonel of an additional conti- 
nental battalion; and on his return recruited in Boston and 
vicinity the i6th Mass. reg. (called the Boston reg.) which 
at once took a high rank for its soldier-like appearance 
and excellent discipline, demonstrating its valor on several 
hard-foucrht fields. This res^iment was consolidated with the 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 289 

9th, I Jan. 1 78 1, and on the further reduction of the army 
(30 Oct. 1782) was numbered the 4th. It left Boston to join 
the main army near Philadelphia, 7 Oct. 1777, and took part 
in the battles of Monmouth, 28 June, 1778; Quaker Hill, 
R. I., 29 Aug. 1778; and Springfield, N. J., 23 June, 1780. 
Col. Jackson commanded the last body of continental troops 
in service at the close of the war, in July, 1784, and was made 
brig. -gen. by brevet. He subsequently engaged in mercan- 
tile pursuits; was maj.-gen. of State militia in 1792-96; and 
was U. S. agent in superintending the building of the frigate 
"Constitution" at Boston in 1797. He was the lifelong 
friend and correspondent of Gen. Knox, and acted for him 
while Secretary of War as agent in his business affairs, par- 
ticularly those concerning his eastern lands. Gen. Jackson 
was the Tre.vsurer of the M.\ss. Society of the Cincinnati 
from its formation, in 1783, until his death, which took place 
in Boston, 4 Jan. 1809. The importance of his services to the 
Society, in building up and husbanding its funds, were recog- 
nized by its vote of 23 Oct. 1806, authorizing the presenta- 
tion to him of a silver cup, — a testimonial that never reached 
him, as it did not arrive from England until after his decease. 
In 1 813 Dr. Stephen Thayer presented to the Society a por- 
trait of the General, which now hangs on the walls of the 
Historic-Genealogical Society. He was generous and hospi- 
table in his temper, gentlemanly in manner, and of a convivial 
and social disposition. He was large and of full habit, weigh- 
ing while at West Point, in 1783, 238 pounds. Gen. Jackson 
was buried in a tomb back of Madam Swan's house in Dor- 
chester, and a monument with a poetical inscription was 
erected there. He was never married. 

EDWARD JACKSON. 
Only nephew of Gen. Henry, whom he succ. in 1809; 
probably the person of that name b. Boston, 8 Sept. 1774, 
H. U. 1794, d. 22 Feb. 18 19, attorney at law. 
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290 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON THAYER. 

Grand-nephew of Gen. Henry Jackson; succ. Edward Jack- 
son in 1826. He was b. Boston, 24 Jan. 1801 ; d. Bangor, 
Me., 30 April, 1877. 

Sarah Jackson, his mother (b. BrookHne, 9 Nov. 1765, d. 1809), 
dau. of Rev. Joseph of Brookhne, who was only brother of Gen. 
Henry Jackson, m. Atherton Thayer, and after his death his brotner, 
Dr. Stephen Thayer, a druggist of Boston. They had Sarah Jackson, 
who m. her cousin Ebenezer Coddington Thayer of Braintree, and 
Joseph Henry Jackson, who m. Susan H. Snow, and had no issue. 

il«itlftacl Jacfeson. 

He was b. Newton, Mass., 18 Dec. 1734; d. there 10 April, 
1801. During the French war he was a lieut., and at the 
breaking out of the Revolutionary war a private in a com- 
pany of minute-men.* Early on the morning of 19 April, 
1775, notice was given of the march of the British troops to 
Lexington ; but when the company assembled, none of the 
commissioned officers were present. Jackson was chosen cap- 
tain for the day; and without a moment's delay he hurried 
his men to the rendezvous of the regiment at Watertown. 
It is said that, finding the officers there assembled more 
inclined to talk than to act, he addressed them sharply, 
and ended by saying he intended that his company should 
" take the shortest route to get a shot at the British," and 
suiting the action to the word, left the council, which, after 
his blunt speech, broke up without any concert of action. 
His company came into contact with Earl Percy's reserve 
near Concord Village, and was dispersed after exchanging 
a few shots ; but soon rallied, hanging upon the flank and 

* There is a tradition in the family that he was one of those who, disguised 
as an Indian, assisted in the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor ; but his 
name does not appear in the collection of papers and documents relating to that 
affair. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 29 1 

rear of the retreating enemy with much effect, until they 
reached Charlestown at nightfall. For its bravery on this 
occasion the company was specially commended by Dr. 
Joseph Warren. Jackson soon after received a major's com- 
mission in Gardner's reg., and was present at Bunker Hill. 
In this battle he had a personal encounter, it is said, with a 
British officer, whom he killed, his own life being preserved 
from his adversary's ball by his sword-belt. He was com. 
lieut.-col. in Bond's reg., and served at the siege of Boston 
and in the defence of New York. Subsequently he was 
transferred to Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's reg., and severely 
wounded in an attack on Montressor's Island, N. Y., 23 Sept. 
1776. In a letter written in 1823, Ebenezer Jackson his son 
says : — 

" Col. Jackson languished for eighteen months before the ball 
could be extracted. I have the ball in my possession, so bruised by 
the bones that it measures i J^ inches in length and ^ of an inch 
in width. In the organization of the army at the commencement of 
the year 1777, Col. Jackson was promoted to command the 8th 
Mass. reg. ; and as soon as he had sufficiently recovered from his 
wound he took command and retained it until he was promoted to 
the rank of brevet-brig. -gen. He continued in the service until his 
men were disbanded in Nov. 17S3." 

Dr. Eustis relates that once, while dining with Gen. Wash- 
ington at West Point, the General, after the cloth was re- 
moved, beckoned Col. Jackson to a seat by his side, and 
" unbent himself with him more than I e\'er had seen him 
do." 

Col. Jackson had five brothers and five sons in the army 
of the Revolution. It is stated that when he raised his regi- 
ment (the 8th Mass.) in 1777, he offered his five sons for 
enlistment. The muster-master accepted the two oldest, but 
refused the others as too young. The Colonel succeeded, 
however, in getting the three youngest (Ebenezer, aged 14 



292 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

years; Amasa, aged 12; and Charles, aged only 10) en- 
listed as drummers and fifers. This led the Mass. Council 
to adopt a resolve that thereafter no person should be mus- 
tered into the service who was not capable of doing the duty 
of a soldier. 

He m. 31 Tan- 1759, Ruth, dau. of Ebenezer Parker, and had — 
Michael ; Simon ; Ehenezer ; Amasa ; Charles. 

Eldest son of Col. Michael; b. Newton, 12 Sept. 1759; d. 
there 15 Oct. 1802. Com. ensign and paymaster in his 
father's (8th) reg. 2 Oct. 1777; licut. 15 Dec. 1779. 

He m. Sarah, dau. of Rev. Stephen Badger of Natick. She d. 
.1831, se. ab. 70. They had — 

Stephen B.adger, b. i6 May, 1793, m. Harriet C. Russell, and 
d. 1817. 

James L., b. 20 Dec. 1794. 

Abig.\il H., b. 23 Feb. i797- 

Simon Jacfeson. 

Son of Col. Michael; b. Newton, Mass., 20 Nov. 1760; d. 
there 17 Oct. 18 18. Com. lieut. in his father's (8th) reg. 
I Jan. 1777; capt. i April, 1782. 

He m. in Feb. 1786, Borodell, dau. of Alexander Shepard, Jr., 
and had three sons and two daughters. By his second wife, Sally 
Spring of Watertown, he had two daughters. 

JTljomas Sacbson. 

He was a member of Paddock's artillery Co. before the 
war; was com. 2d lieut. in Knox's artillery reg. i Jan. 1776; 
capt.-lieut. in Crane's artillery reg. i Jan. 1777; capt. 22 
Feb. 1780. He d. 1790. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 293 

THOMAS JACKSON. 

Only son of Capt. Thomas, whom he succ. in 1802; b. 
Boston, 1778; d. there 6 Dec. 1850. Merchant of Boston. 
Assist. Sec. of the Society in 1821-34; Secretary from 
1834 to his decease. 

He left no son. A dau. Abigail Eayres d. in New York, in 1852, 
leaving a dau. Ma>y Baker. 

Samuel Jcffcrtrs. 

A sergt. in Burbcck's Co. of Knox's reg. in 1776; com. 2d 
lieut. in Crane's artillery, 1777; ist lieut. i Oct. 1778; in 
service at West Point as late as Aug. 1784; d. before 1812. 

JJoijn Joijitston. 

He was b. Boston, ab. 1753; d. there 28 June, 1818. 
Thomas Johnston, his father, was known as an escutcheon- 
maker, and built the first organ of American manufacture 
used in Boston. He d. in 1765, and was interred in King's 
Chapel burying-ground. John was in early life apprenticed 
to John Gore, a house and sign painter, father of Gov. Gore ; 
and was, before the war, a member of Paddock's artillery com- 
pany. In April, 1775, he joined Gridley's artillery reg. as a 
lieut.; was com. a capt. -lieut. in Knox's reg. i Jan. 1776; 
and at the battle of Brooklyn, L. I., 27 Aug. 1776, was severely 
wounded and made a prisoner. He spoke often in after years 
of the skill of Surgeon Eustis (afterward Gov. of Mass.) in suc- 
cessfully treating his case ; but the severity of the wound com- 
pelled his retirement from the service in Oct. 1777, and he 
resumed his art in Boston, where he kept a shop in Court 
Street, near the head of Gore's Alley. He painted many 
likenesses of the Revolutionary and other celebrities of his 
day; but in color and in drawing, owing to limited oppor- 



294 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

tunity for study, liis productions were somewhat deficient. 
Among his portraits are those of Gov. Increase Sumner, now 
in the Mass. Senate Chamber; Gov. Wm. Philhps and family; 
Major Samuel Shaw; Gov. Samuel Adams (destroyed by 
fire many years since); and one of Mrs. Adams, which is 
still preserved. He painted the sign of " The Good' Samari- 
tan," which was displayed in front of Thos. Bartlett's apothe- 
cary store in Old Cambridge, many years ago ; but in the 
" priest passing by on the other side " he gave such a striking 
likeness of Rev. Dr. Walter of Christ Church, that the sign 
had to be changed. Dunlap calls Johnston " a man of wit 
and talent." 

He m. Miss Spear, dau. of a Boston merchant, and had one or 
two sons who d. in infancy, and four daughters, two of whom (Mrs. 
Soren and Mrs. Newell) had issue. His last surviving dau., Gfl^ce 
F., was living in 1853. 

JOHN JOHNSTON SOREN. 

Son of John and Sarah (Johnston) Soren, and eldest grand- 
son of John Johnston, whom he succ. in 1840; b. Dorchester, 
18 Oct. 1803; d. Boston, 20 Feb. 1889. He was teller of 
the Washington Bank from 1825 to 184S; and cashier of 
the Boylston Bank from 1848 to 1S75, when he retired from 
active service. He was, at the time of his death, the senior 
member of the Cincinnati Society. 

" Had he chosen lo devote himself lo art he might have won dis- 
tinction as a landscape-painter. He was a gentleman of refined 
tastes, of quiet and unostentatious demeanor, and in all respects a 
most worthy and exemplary citi/^en." 

He m. 3 June, 1828, Fanny Wales, and had several children. His 
son, George Wales Soren, of New York, was elected in iSgo as his 
successor. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 295 

Soscpi) Itillam. 

He was b. Gloucester, Mass., 1739. Com. 2d lieut. in 
Hutchinson's (27th) reg. 5 May, 1775; ist lieut. in Putnam's 
(5th) reg. 1 Jan. 1777; capt. 14 Oct. 1780. He was con- 
tinued in the service after the war, being the officer directed 
to take possession of the posts at Flushing, Jamaica, and 
Flamsted.L. I. He received an honorable discharge in 1806, 
when he returned to Massachusetts. Joseph, his father, d. 
in Gloucester, 12 March, 1806, aged lOO years, 11 months, 
12 days. 

Zcfjulon Bins. 

He was b. Raynham, Mass., 16 Oct. 1750. Com. lieut. in 
Bradford's (14th) reg. in 1777 ; capt. 4 Oct. 1780; in Brooks's 
(7th) reg. in 1783. He emigrated to Ohio in 1788, and 
settled in Belpre, leaving his family in Rhode Island. He 
intended to return for them as soon as he had prepared a 
house and raised a crop for their support, but was killed 
by the Indians, May i, 1789. His widow afterward settled 
in Newport, R. I. 

His descent from Philip'^ King, who removed in 1680 from Brain- 
tree to Raynham, and m. ab. 1680, Judith, dau. of Rev. William 
Whitman of Milton, was through yi?/;;?,^ b. ab. 1681, d. 5 Oct. 1741, 
who m. in 1700, Alice Dean, d. 1746 ; David^ (his father), b. 1712, 
d. 6 July, 1753, m. Rebecca Dean. Zebulon's son, Charles B., was 
a portrait-painter. 

IHosFii Bnap. 

He was b. Mansfield, Mass., 1743 ; d. Franklin, Mass., 7 
Nov. 1809. Com. capt. in Joseph Read's reg. May, 1775; 
in Shepard's (4th) reg. i Jan. 1777; served in Sullivan's 
R. I. campaign in 1778; com. major of Marshall's (loth) 
reg. 5 Nov. 1778; in 5th reg. in 1783. 



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He m. in 1772, Margaret Tiffany, b. Mansfield, 1757, d. 6 Aug. 
1840. They had: Hiram; Peggy, b. 18 April, 1789; Alfred, b. 
6 Oct. 1791 ; Melville, b. 24 Dec. 1793 ; Polly, b. 18 Aug. 1796 ; 
George W., 29 Dec. 1799. 

HIRAM KNAPP. 

Eldest son of Moses, whom he succ. in 1857; b. Franklin, 
Mass., 18 April, 1787; d. 18 Aug. 1S65. 

His children were: Gilbert Clark; Emilia, b. 26 Feb. 1816, 
m. Edward Hunt; Sylvia L., b. 5 Dec. 181 7, m. James S. Rand; 
Hiram, Jr., b. 20 April, 1S20, and resides in Athol. 

GILBERT CLARK KNAPP. 

Eldest son of Hiram, whom he succ. in 1S66; b. Franklin, 
Mass., 12 Jan. 1814; d. 27 Aug. 1883. He was in business 
in Richmond, Va., from 1843 to 1852. Afterward he went 
to Worcester, Mass., and was in business there for a time. 

He m. 22 Jan. 1856, Lucinda Cloddard, b. 2 May, 1 831, and has: 
James Herbert, b. 7 June, 1857, and resides in Franklin ; Josephine 
Gilbert, b. 14 Dec. i860, d. 2 July, 1863 ; Matilda Gertrude, b. 
22 Jan. 1865. 

He was the son of Capt. James and Martha (Stillman) 
Knowles of Wethersfield, Ct. Soon after the battle of Lex- 
ington, he joined Capt. Meigs's Co. in Middletown, Ct., and 
marched to Cambridge; was com. licut. in Knox's artillery 
reg. in 1776; lieut. and paym. in Crane's artillery reg. i Jan. 
1777; 1st lieut. I Aug. 1778; capt.-lieut. 13 Sept. 1780; and 
finally, closing his paymaster's accounts in 1785, went to 
Ohio, where he was on the first jury at Marietta in 17S8, and 
d. unm. in 1796. His younger brother, James, was an ofii- 
cer in the Revolutionary navy. His sister Martha m. John 
Strong. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 297 

One of the distinguished figures in the war of the Revolu- 
tion, and the leader in the formation of the Society of the 
Cincinnati; was b. in Boston, Mass., 25 July, 1750. Hi? 
paternal ancestors were from the Lowlands of Scotland, a 
place bearing that name being found on the southern border 
of the Clyde, within the barony of Renfrew. During the 
reign, of James I. many Scotch Presbyterians settled in the 
north of Ireland, whence numbers of them subsequently 
emigrated to America. In the year 1729 some of these emi- 
grants landed in Boston, bringing with them their pastor, 
John Morehead, and founded in Bury Street a religious 
society, which was the origin of the Federal Street Church, 
afterward the scene of William Ellery Channing's labors. 
It is remarkable that the first two names found on the 
baptismal records of this society, of which the parents of 
Knox were members, are those of Knox and Campbell. 
The tradition in the family of Knox was that they came 
from the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland, and that William, his 
father, was born in St. Eustatius, one of the West Indies. 
He was m. at Boston, 1 1 Feb. 1735 (O. S.), by Rev. Mr. More- 
head, to Mary, dau. of Robert Campbell. He was a ship- 
master, and the owner of a wharf and a small estate on Sea 
Street (now Federal), near Summer, which he was in 1756 
compelled by misfortune to relinquish. In 1759 he went 
to St. Eustatius, where he d. 25 March, 1762, aged fifty years. 
His widow, Mary, d. in Boston, 14 Dec. 1771, aged fifty- 
three. 

Henry, the seventh often sons, of whom only four attained 
to manhood, was b. in a house on Federal Street, formerly 
Sea Street, opposite the head of Drake's wharf* He en- 

* The larger part of the original structure — a wooden building with a gam- 
brel roof — is still standing, and may be seen in the rear of No. 235 Federal 
Street. 



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tercd the Boston Latin School in 1758, and soon after 
graduating secured employment in the bookseller's shop of 
Wharton & Bowes, on Cornhill. He showed a fondness 
for books, especially those on military subjects, and acquired 
a good knowledge of the French language. 

Of a robust and athletic frame, and an enterprising and 
resolute character, he was foremost in the contests between 
the North and South Ends, — two rival sections of Boston, 
to the latter of which he belonged. On the evening of the 
affray of 5 March, 1770, which took place in King Street, 
known as " The Boston Massacre," Knox endeavored to 
keep the croud away from the soldiers, and when Capt. 
Preston came upon the ground, " took him b}' the coat and 
told him for God's sake to take his men back again, for if 
they fired his life must answer for the consequence ; " to 
which the Captain replied that " he was sensible of it, and 
seemed in great haste and much agitated." 

Having attained the age of twenty-one, Knox quitted his 
employer and began business on his own account. In Edes 
& Gill's "Gazette" of 29 July, 1771, the following notice 
appears : — 

" This day is opened a new London Bookstore by Henry Knox, 
opposite Williams' Court in Cornhill, Boston, who has just imported 
in the last ships from London a large and ver)' elegant assortment 
of the most modern books in all branches of Literature, Arts, and 
Sciences (catalogues of which will be published soon), and to be 
sold as cheap as can be bought at any place in town. Also a 
complete assortment of stationery." 

" Knox's store," says Gen. Henry Burbeck, a contem- 
porary, " was a great resort for the British officers and 
Tory ladies, who were the ton at that period ; " and Harri- 
son Gray Otis long afterward described it as " one of great 
display and attraction for young and old, and a fashionable 
morning lounge." 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 299 

Writing to Longman, the London bookseller, in 1774, 
Knox says : — 

" This whole continent have entered into a general non-importa- 
tion agreement until the late acts of parliament respecting this govern- 
ment, etc., are repealed, which will prevent my sending any orders 
for books until this most desirable end is accomplished. I cannot 
but hope every person who is concerned in American trade will most 
strenuously exert themselves, in their respective stations, for what so 
nearly concerns themselves." 

He was thoroughly identified with the measures taken at 
that time by the local leaders to resist the aggressions of 
the British Government. At the age of eighteen, in obe- 
dience to a strong natural bent, he had joined a military 
company ; and when the ' Boston Grenadier Corps " was 
formed by Capt. Joseph Peirce, he was one of its founders 
and was second in command. On 16 June, 1774, he m. 
Lucy Flucker, second dau. of Hon. Thomas Flucker, Secre- 
tary of the Province. The Secretary, who is described as 
" a high-toned Loyalist of great family pretensions," was at 
first opposed to the match ; but his opposition appears to 
have been overcome. It is said that large promises were 
made to Knox to induce him to stand by the represen- 
tatives of the royal government ; but he remained true to 
the principles of local self-government, and soon after the 
contest at Concord and Lexington left Boston in disguise, 
" his departure having been interdicted by Gage," and re- 
ported for duty at Gen. Ward's headquarters in Cambridge. 
He was engaged in reconnoitring service on the day the 
battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Afterward he aided in 
constructing the military works around Boston, and received 
the commendation of Washington for his energy and skill. 
John Adams, writing to Knox from Philadelphia, 1 1 Nov. 
1775, says: — 



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" I have been impressed with an opinion of your knowledge and 
abihties in the military way for several years, and of late have en- 
deavored, both at camp, at Watertown, and at Philadelphia, by men- 
tioning your name and character, to make you more known, and 
consequently in a better way for promotion. 

" It was a sincere opinion of your merit and qualifications which 
prompted me to act this part, and therefore I am very happy to be 
able to inform you that 1 beheve you will very soon be provided for 
according to your wishes ; at least you may depend upon this, that 
nothing in my power shall be wanting to effect it." 

On the 8th of the same month, Washington wrote to the 
President of Congress : — 

" The council of officers are unanimously of opinion that the com- 
mand of the artillery should no longer continue in Col. Gridley ; 
and knowing of no person better qualified to supply his place, or 
whose appointment will give more general satisfaction, I have taken 
the liberty of recommending Henry Knox to the consideration of 
Congress." 

Kno.x was commissioned by Congress, 17 Nov. 1775, to 
be colonel of the artillery regiment. Before receiving his 
commission, however, he was despatched by the Commander- 
in-Chief on a very important expedition to Ticonderoga to 
procure cannon and stores from the fort at that place and 
transport them across country to Cambridge. In this expe- 
dition, which was entirely successful, Knox showed that he 
was fertile in resources, and possessed of great boldness and 
vigor. 

On the night of 4 March, 1776, under cover of a brisk 
cannonade from Kno.x's batteries at Cobble Hill, Lechmere's 
Point, and Roxbury, Gen. Thomas ' took possession of Dor- 
chester Heights, commanding the town and harbor of Boston, 
which he so strongly fortified that the British commander de- 
cided to evacuate Boston on the 17th.* 

* The Fluckers accompanied the royal troops to Halif.ix, and sailed thence 
to England, where the father and mother of Mrs. Knox both died, — the former, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 3OI 

Knox, with his artillery, then followed Washington through 
Rhode Island and Connecticut to Long Island and New York 
City. After being driven out of the city, he writes to his 
brother William from the Heights of Harlem, 23 Sept. 
1776: — 

" There is a radical evil in our army, — the lack of officers. We 
ought to have men of merit in the most extensive and unlimited 
sense of the word. Instead of which, the bulk of the officers of the 
army are a parcel of ignorant, stupid men, who might make tolerable 
soldiers, but [are] bad officers ; and until Congress forms an estab- 
lishment to induce men proper for the purpose to leave their usual 
employments and enter the service, it is ten to one they will be beat 
till they are heartily tired of it. We ought to have academies in 
which the whole theory of the art of war shall be taught, and every 
other encouragement possible given to draw persons into the army 
that may give a lustre to our arms. As the army now stands, it is 
only a receptacle for ragamuffins. You will observe I am chagrined, 
not more so than at any other time since I 've been in the army ; 
but many late affairs, of which I 've been an eyewitness, have so 
totally sickened me, that unless some very different mode of conduct 
is observed in the formation of the new army, I shall not think my- 
self obliged by either the laws. of God or nature to risk my reputa- 
tion on so cobweb a foundation." 

After a series of disasters, Washington retreated through 
the Jerseys, and across the Delaware River near Trenton. 
Here the pursuit ceased, and an opportunity soon otTered to 
restore the drooping spirits of the patriot army. Under cover 
of the night, Washington recrossed the Delaware, — Knox 
superintending the passage, — and fell upon Trenton, cap- 
turing the entire garrison. Writing to his wife of this affair, 
on 28 Dec. 1776, Kno.x says: — 

" His Excellency the General has done me the unmerited great 
honor of thanking me in public orders in terms strong and polite. 

in March, 17S3; the latter, in Dec. 17S5. Mrs. Knox accompanied her husband 
when he left Boston in June, 1775, and appears to have been heartily in sym- 
pathy with his patriotic purposes. 



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This I should blush to mention to any other than to you, my dear 
Lucy ; and I am fearful that even my Lucy may think her Harry 
possesses a species of little vanity in doing [it] at all." 

Writing again, 2 Jan. 1777, he says: — 

" We are collecting our force at this place, and shall give batde to 
the enemy very soon. Our people have exerted great fortitude, and 
stayed beyond the time of their enlistment, in high spirits, but want 
rum and clothing. Will it give you satisfaction or pleasure in being 
informed that the Congress have created me a general officer, • — a 
brigadier, — with the entire command of the artillery? " * 

On the day after this letter was written, the battle of 
Princeton occurred, of which Knox gives a detailed account 
in a letter to his wife, 7 Jan. It appears to have been 
upon his recommendation that Morristown was subsequently 
selected as the winter quarters of the army. Knox was sent 
eastward to see to the casting of cannon and the establish- 
ment of laboratories. Writing to Washington from Boston, 
under date of i Feb., he says: — 

" Upon my arrival here, I was much surprised at the very extra- 
ordinary bounty offered by the State (S86|) for recruits for the ser- 
vice. Part of a regiment, consisting of four hundred men with a 
detachment of one hundred and fifty artillery, marches to-morrow 
and next day for Ticonderoga. The enlistments in this town have 
been exceeding rapid. General Ward is here ; but whether he acts 
as a councillor of the Massachusetts or a continental general is diffi- 
cult to say. There must be one battalion of artillery raised in this 
State ; for all the old artillerymen, who have been two years in the 
service and acquired some experience, are from this town and col- 
ony. If the Congress should still adhere to Brookfield in preference 
to Springfield, it will delay everything for three or four months. I 
wrote General Greene from Springfield that it was the best place in 
all the four New England States for a laboratory, cannon foundry. 
etc., and I hope your E.xcellency will order it there." 

* His commission w.is dated 27 Dec. 1776, the day following the victory of 
Trenton, but before the news had reached Congress. That body had previously 
resolved to augment the artillery to a brigade of four regiments. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 303 

In the following May (i///) he was with Gen. Greene 
planning the defences of the North River. Writing to his 
wife on the 21st, he says: — 

" We have the most respectable body of continental troops that 
America ever had, no going home to-morrow to suck, — hardy, brave 
fellows, who are as willing to go to heaven by the way of a bayonet 
or sword as any other mode. With the blessing of Heaven, I have 
great hopes in the course of this campaign that we shall do some- 
thing clever." 

On the attempt at this time to place a foreign officer in 
charge of the Continental Artillery, Washington wrote to the 
President of Congress, that the appointment would cause the 
retirement of Gen. Kno.x, " one of the most valuable offi- 
cers in the service, and who, combating almost innumerable 
difficulties in the department he fills, has placed the artillery 
upon a footing that does him the greatest honor ; " and he 
further characterizes him as " a man of great military reading, 
sound judgment, and clear conceptions." 

Knox took part in the operations at Philadelphia, and in 
the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, of which he 
writes fully to his wife. On the 15th of November, after the 
fall of Fort Mifflin, Knox, with De Kalb and St. Clair, was 
sent to provide for the security of Red Bank. This post, 
known as Fort Mercer, fell, however, after a brave defence 
on the 1 8th. 

In the council of war on 26 Oct., and again on 3 Dec. 
Knox opposed the project of an attack on the enemy's lines 
at Philadelphia, giving on the day last named these reasons: 
" Our entire want of clothing; the impossibility and impracti- 
cability of surprising 10,000 veteran troops in a well fortified 
city; the impossibility of our keeping the field to besiege 
their works and city regularly, being almost totally deficient 
in warlike apparatus for so arduous an enterprise; and the 
uncertainty of obtaining a sufficient number of militia to 



304 UIOGKAPIilCAL NOTICES OF THE 

warrant the enterprise." He proposed that the army go into 
winter quarters, with the right at Lancaster and the left at 
Reading, provided a sufficiency of houses and good cover 
could be had there; if not, that it should be hutted about 
thirty miles from Philadelphia, near the Schuylkill. The 
army wintered at Valley Forge, somewhat nearer the city; 
and Knox took advantage of the cessation of active opera- 
tions to visit his wife at Boston. 

At the battle of Monmouth, which occurred on June 28, 
and of which he ever after spoke with much pride, Knox re- 
connoitred in front, rallying the retreat, and bringing up the 
rear with a brisk fire from a battery planted in the night, 
directed by his brigade adjutant, the Chevalier Mauduit 
Duplessis. Of the services of this arm, Washington, in gen- 
eral orders, says he " can with pleasure inform Gen. Knox 
and the officers of the artillery that the enemy has done 
them the justice to acknowledge that no artillery could have 
been better served than ours." 

The French army under the Count de Rochambeau, des- 
tined to co-operate with the Americans, arrived at Newport 
in July, 1780; and on 21 Sept. Washington, La Fayette, and 
Knox visited the French general and admiral, De Ternay, at 
Hartford, to concert the details of a plan of operations. While 
returning from this meeting, they heard of Arnold's treason, 
and immediately hastened to West Point. Knox was one of 
the board of general officers which tried Major Andre and 
condemned him to death as a spy. 

The next important movement in which Knox took part 
was the investment of Yorktown, which took place in the 
latter part of Sept. 1781. On 19 Oct. he writes to his wife: 

'' I have detained William until this moment that I might be the 
first to communicate good neii.<s to the charmer of my soul. A glori- 
ous moment for America ! This day Lord Cornwaliis and his army 
march out and pile their arms in the face of our victorious army. 



CINCINNATI UF MASSACHUSETTS. 305 

The day before yesterday he desired commissioners might be named 
to treat of the surrender of his troops, the ships, and everything they 
possess. He at first requested that the Britons might be sent to 
Britain, and the Germans to Germany ; but this the General refused, 
and they have now agreed to surrender prisoners of war, to be kept 
in America until exchanged or released. They will have the same 
honors as the garrison of Charleston ; that is, they will not be per- 
mitted to unfurl their colors, ox play Yankee Doodle. We know not 
yet how many they are. The General has just requested me to be 
at head-quarters instantly, therefore I cannot be more particular." 

Knox's skill and activity in providing and forwarding 
heavy cannon for the siege of Yorktown caused Washington 
to report to the President of Congress that " the resources 
of his genius supplied the deficit of means;" and he was 
complimented in general orders after the surrender, and rec- 
ommended for promotion. Chastellux, in his " Travels in 
North America," also pays him a high compliment. " We 
cannot," he says, " sufficiently admire the intelligence and 
activity with which he collected from different places and 
transported to the batteries more than thirty pieces of can- 
non and mortars of large calibre, for the siege." Again he 
says : " The artillery was always very well served, the General 
incessantly directing it and often himself pointing the mor- 
tars : seldom did he leave the batteries. . . . The English 
marvelled at the exact fire and the terrible execution of the 
French artillery; and we marvelled no less at the extraor- 
dinary progress of the American artillery, and at the capa- 
city and instruction of the officers. As to Gen. Knox, but 
one half has been said in commending his military genius. 
He is a man of talent, well instructed, of a buoyant disposi- 
tion, ingenuous and true ; it is impossible to know him with- 
out esteeming and loving him." 

In March, 1782, Knox and Gouverneur Morris were ap- 
pointed commissioners to arrange a cartel for a general 



306 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

exchange of prisoners, to liquidate the expenses of their 
maintenance, and to provide for their subsistence in future. 
They met the British commissioners — Gen. Wilham Dal- 
rymple, whom Kno.x had formerly known as commander of 
the 14th reg. in Boston, and Andrew Elliot, Esq. — at Eliza- 
bethtown, N. J., on the 30th ; but the differences upon essen- 
tial points were so great, no arrangement could be effected, 
notwithstanding the earnest and persevering exertions of 
the American agents. They transmitted the account of their 
proceedings to Washington, who thus replied : — 

" I should do injustice to my own feelings on this occasion if I 
did not express something beyond my bare approbation of the atten- 
tion, address, and ability exhibited by you, gentlemen, in the course 
of this tedious and fruitless negotiation. The want of succeeding in 
the great object of your mission does not, however, lessen in my 
estimation the merit which is due to the unwearied assiduity for the 
public good, and the benevolent zeal to alleviate the distresses of 
the unfortunate, which seem to have actuated you on every occa- 
sion, and for which, I entreat, you will be pleased to accept my most 
cordial thanks." 

Kno.x was promoted to the rank of major-general, 22 
March, 1782, to date from 15 Nov. 1781. Writing to Wash- 
ington on 2 1 April following, he says : — 

" I have received a letter from Gen. Lincoln, informing that Con- 
gress have been pleased to promote me in the manner most flat- 
tering to my wishes, founded upon your Excellency's letter from 
Yorktown. 

" I cannot express how deeply I am impressed with a sense of 
your kindness, and the favorable point of view in which you have 
regarded my feeble attempts to promote the service of my country. 
I shall ever retain, my deat General, a lively sense of your good- 
ness and friendship, and shall be happy indeed if my future conduct 
shall meet with your approbation." 

The discontent of the army respecting the arrearages of 
pay was increased by the prospect of its being disbanded 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 307 

before adequate provision was made by Congress for a settle- 
ment. It manifested itself in a manner which threatened se- 
rious consequences. In Dec. 1782, a committee of officers was 
chosen to draft an address and petition to Congress. This 
was drawn up by Knox, its chairman, and contained a state- 
ment of the amounts due them ; a proposal that the half- 
pay for life should be commuted for a specific sum ; and a 
request that security should be given by the Government for 
the fulfilment of its engagements. The action of Congress 
on this memorial was indefinite and unsatisfactory to the 
officers. The disappointment and irritation felt at this result 
produced the famous " Newburgh Addresses," by which the 
feelings of the officers were wrought up to the highest pitch. 
At this point the strenuous exertions of Knox were joined 
with those of Washington, in composing the discontented 
and mutinous spirit which appeared ; and at the meeting of 
officers held 15 March, at which Washington by a patriotic 
and impressive address allayed the storm which threatened 
the peace of the country, Knox moved the resolutions thank- 
ing him for the course he had pursued, and declaring their 
unshaken reliance on the good faith of Congress and their 
country, and a determination to bear with patience their 
grievances till in due time they should be redressed. The 
subject was again considered in Congress, and the commu- 
tation and other provisions asked for in the memorial were 
granted. 

It was at this time that Knox, in order to perpetuate the 
friendships formed by the officers of the army, so soon to be 
disbanded, and at the same time to create a fund for their 
indigent widows and orphans, devised the plan upon which 
the Society of the Cincinnati was founded. 

Knox had been left by Washington in command of the 
army on 26 Aug., and in November he began the deli- 
cate and arduous task of disbanding it. On the 25th of 



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that month the British army evacuated the city of New 
York, and Knox, at the head of the American troops, took 
possession. 

Upon his return to West Point, 18 Dec, Knox was offi- 
cially thanked by Gov. Clinton and the Council for his atten- 
tion to the rights of the citizens of the State of New York, 
and for his zeal in preserving peace and good order since the 
evacuation. Having completed his work of discharging the 
troops, Knox came to Boston in Jan. 1784, and took up his 
residence in Dorchester. In June following he was appointed 
by the General Court of Massachusetts one of the commis- 
sioners to treat with the Penobscot Indians, in order to in- 
duce them to relinquish their lands from tlie head of the 
tide forty miles up the river. They were also instructed to 
examine and settle the eastern boundary line. 

On 4 March, 1785, Congress elected Knox to fill the 
office of Secretary of War. In accepting the position, 
Knox wrote : — 

" I have the most grateful sentiments to Congress for this distin- 
guishing mark of their confidence ; and I shall, according to the best 
of my abilities, attempt to execute the duties of the office. I shall 
have a perfect reliance upon a candid interpretation of my actions, 
and I shall hope that application to business and propriety of inten- 
tion may, in a degree, excuse a deficiency of talents." 

When Shays's rebellion broke out in Massachusetts in the 
latter part of 1786, Knox went to Springfield and took mea- 
sures to secure the arsenal from assault. This disturbance 
led him to consider the weakness of the Confederate organi- 
zation. He wrote a long and admirable letter on the subject 
to Washington on 23 Oct. of that year; and in letters to 
Stephen Higginson, Rufus King, Gen. Lincoln, and Nathan- 
iel Gorham, urged the necessity of a more perfect union of 
the States, in order to insure domestic tranquillity and pro- 
vide for the national defence. He showed himself to be a 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 3O9 

good statesman as well as a good soldier. Writing to La 
Fayette in Oct. 1787, after the Philadelphia Convention had 
completed its work, he said : — 

" To speak decisively at this moment of the fate of the proposed 
constitution, characterizes effectually the person giving the opinion. 
Habituated as I have been for a long time to desire the consolida- 
tion of the powers of all parts of this country, as an indispensable 
requisite to national character and national happiness, I receive the 
propositions as they are, and from my soul I wish them God speed ! 
The transition from wishing an event to believing that it will happen, 
is easy indeed. I therefore am led to a strong persuasion that the 
proposed government will be generally or universally adopted in the 
course of twelve or fifteen months. 

" In desiring that the proposed government may be adopted, I 
would not have you believe that I think it all perfect. There are 
several things in it that I confess I could wish to see altered. But I 
apprehend no alterations can be effected peaceably. All the States 
represented agreed to the constitution as it stands. There are sub- 
stantial reasons to believe that such an agreement could not again 
be produced even by the same men." 

During Knox's career as Secretary of War, Mrs. Knox was 
one of the leaders of fashionable society at the seat of gov- 
ernment, and as such attracted considerable notice. Dr. 
Manasseh Cutler, in his journal under date of July 19, 1787, 
says : — 

" Dined with Gen. Knox ; about forty-four gentlemen, officers of 
the late continental army, and among them Baron Steuben. Gen. 
Knox gave us an entertainment in the style of a prince. Every 
gentleman at the table was of the ' Cincinnati ' except myself, and 
wore his appropriate badge." 

Another writer says : — 

" Mrs. Knox had been one of the heroines of the Revolution, 
nearly as well known in the camp as her husband. She and her 
husband were perhaps the largest couple in the city, and both were 



3IO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

favorites, — he for really brilliant conversation and unfailing good 
humor ; and she as a lively and meddlesome but amiable leader of 
society, without whose co-operation it was believed by many besides 
herself that nothing could be properly done in the drawing-room 
or the ball-room, or any place indeed where fashionable men and 
women sought enjoyment. The house of the Secretary was in Broad- 
way, and it was the scene of a liberal and genial hospitality." 

Upon the formation of the new government in May, 1789, 
Knox was continued in his post of War Secretary by Wash- 
ington.* " To his past services and an unquestioned integ- 
rity," says Judge Marshall, " he was admitted to unite a 
sound understanding; and the public judgment, as well as 
that of the chief magistrate, pronounced him in all respects 
competent to the station he filled." 

The framing of a militia system for the country received 
the early attention of the Secretary. He had, in April, 1783, 
communicated to Washington his ideas upon this subject, to 
the effect that there should be a uniform system and annual 
encampments ; each State to have an arsenal and a sufficient 
quantity of arms and ammunition ; that the United States 
should have some troops for the security of the frontiers, and 
at West Point, " the key to America, which has been so ad- 
vantageous in the defence of the United States, and is still so 
important in that view, as well as of preserving the Union ;" 
that a complete system of military education should be 
formed and adopted; that there should be three military 
academies where the United States arsenals are, — one in 
the Northern, one in the Middle, and one in the Southern 
States ; and that a code of military laws should be framed 
and inspectors appointed by Congress, who should annually 
examine the academies and report to Congress. 

Knox's " Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia 
of the United States," reported to Congress, 18 March, 1786, 

* His commission bears d.ite 12 Sept., 1789. 



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provided for the embodiment of all male citizens from 
eighteen to sixty, into three classes, — "The Advanced 
Corps," " The Main Corps," and " The Reserved Corps; " the 
form to be that of the legion; each legion to consist of 153 
commissioned officers and 2,880 non-commissioned officers 
and privates, and to be commanded by a major-general. The 
legionary formation was for a time adopted as the regular 
establishment of the United States ; but the plan for the 
militia, though it had the approval of Washington, was not 
regarded with favor, and a system less onerous as well as less 
energetic was at length adopted. 

The policy to be pursued toward the various Indian tribes 
of the United States demanded a large share of Knox's at- 
tention, and in it he was guided by enlarged and liberal views. 
In the minutes which he furnished for the President's speech, 
in Oct. 1 79 1, he advocates an impartial administration of jus- 
tice towards them, suggests that the mode of alienating their 
lands should be properly defined and regulated, and that the 
advantages of commerce and the blessings of civilization should 
be extended to them ; and that proper penalties should be 
provided for such lawless persons as shall violate the treaties 
with them. " A system," he goes on to say, " producing 
the free operation of the mild principles of religion and be- 
nevolence towards an unenlightened race of men would at 
once be highly economical and honorable to the national 
character." 

A treaty with the Creek Nation of Indians was signed 
7 Aug. 1790, by Knox, as sole commissioner, in behalf of the 
United States ; and by Alexander McGillivray and twenty- 
three chiefs, in behalf of the Creek nation, by which an ex- 
tensive territory claimed by Georgia was relinquished to that 
State. McGillivray was at the same time commissioned a 
brigadier-general in the army of the United States. 

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St. Clair in 1791, against the Northwestern Indians, were fol- 
lowed, in 1794, by the victorious campaign of Wayne, and by 
the treaty of Greenville in August, 1795, by whom peace was 
established, and the post of Detroit, together with a consider- 
able tract of land, ceded to the United States. 

The outrages of the pirates of the Mediterranean on the 
persons and property of our citizens, together with the im- 
portance of providing defences for our extensive seaboard, 
forcibly impressed Knox's mind with the necessity of a naval 
force. Jefferson and himself were the only supporters in- the 
Cabinet of the establishment of a navy; but his endeavors 
were at length carried into effect by his sanguine confidence 
in its success and his strenuous efforts for its accomplishment. 
The result soon vindicated the wisdom of the measure, and 
our navy has ever since been identified with the glory and 
prosperity of the country. Kno.x performed the duties of 
both departments with equal zeal and ability until the im- 
perious claims of private interest compelled him to turn his 
attention to the long-neglected concerns of his family. 

The expenses of his open hospitality far exceeded the 
limited compensation of his office, and he had for some time 
been determined to retire from public life. The President 
had expressed a desire that he would remain with him till the 
close of his own official career, and had from time to time 
induced him to continue, but at length reluctantly accepted 
his resignation. 

Leaving Philadelphia on i June, 1795, he visited his native 
town, where, on the 12th, he was invited to a public dinner 
by his friends and fellow-citizens. Continuing his journey, he 
was publicly welcomed on the 22d by the people of Thomas- 
ton, Me., where he had fixed his future residence. He at 
once applied himself to the cultivation and improvement of 
an extensive tract of land called the Muscongus or Waldo 
patent, part of which Mrs. Knox inherited from her grand- 



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father, General Waldo, and the residue of which the General 
had bought of other heirs. It lay between the Kennebec and 
Penobscot rivers, and comprised a large portion of what are 
now the counties of Lincoln, Waldo, and Penobscot. Much 
of this land was in the possession of squatters, and it was a 
task of no little difficulty to quiet their pretensions; but the 
firm yet conciliatory course pursued eventually overcame all 
obstacles. 

Prior to his removal from Philadelphia the General had 
built a large and handsome house at the head of St. George's 
River in Thomaston, to which he gave the name of Montpelier. 
He had many distinguished visitors; among others the Due 
de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Louis Philippe, afterward 
King of France, Talleyrand, and the Chevalier de Beaumctz. 

" Mrs. Knox," says the Duke de la Rochefoucauld-Lian- 
court in his " Travels in the United States," " is a lady of 
whom you conceive a still higher opinion the longer you are 
acquainted with her. Seeing her in Philadelphia, you think 
of her only as a fortunate player at whist; at her house in 
the country you discover that she possesses sprightliness, 
knowledge, a good heart, and an excellent understanding." 
Of her daughter (afterward Mrs. Thatcher), he says that " at 
their house in Maine she lays aside her excessive timidity, and 
you admire alike her beauty, wit, and cheerfulness ; " and of 
the General, " He is one of the worthiest men I have ever 
known; lively, agreeable; valuable equally as an excellent 
friend and as an engaging companion." 

Knox entered largely into brickmaking, and the manufac- 
ture of lime and lumber, and also carried on an extensive 
mercantile business, which was managed by Capt. Thomas 
Vose, a gallant officer of artillery. These and other varied 
industries which he carried on gave employment to large 
numbers of mechanics, who became permanent residents of 
Thomaston, and stimulated the growth of the town. He 



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also attempted to introduce improved breeds of cattle and 
sheep. As early as 1796 he engaged in the business of ship- 
building, and several coasters were launched and kept run- 
ning in his employ. Many of his business enterprises, 
however, were not successful, and he became embarrassed 
financially. 

Upon the declaration of war with France, in 1798, 
under the Presidency of John Adams, Washington, who 
was appointed lieut.-gen., named as his seconds Hamilton, 
C. C. Pinckney, and Kno.x, in the order mentioned. The 
latter was greatly mortified at being placed after those who 
during the war had been his juniors in rank, and he de- 
clined to serve. He wrote to Washington a remonstrance, 
which the latter sent to Hamilton, with a letter delicately 
intimating a disposition favorable to Knox. Hamilton, in 
reply, reluctantly acquiesced in " any arrangement which 
Washington might deem for the general good ; " and at a 
later period endeavored, in a letter to Knox, to throw the 
responsibility upon others. 

On 6 April, 1796, Knox was appointed a commissioner 
for the United States for settling the eastern boundary on 
the true river St. Croix. In 1801 he was elected a member 
of the General Court; and on 2 June, 1804, he was appointed 
one of the Council of Gov. Strong, by whom he was much 
consulted in important affairs. 

Gen. Knox was exceedingly fond of the society of men 
of learning, talent, and wit, and had an extensive correspond- 
ence with many of the eminent men of his time, both in 
Europe and America. At the time of his decease he had 
a library of 1,585 volumes, 364 of which were in the French 
language. Next to that of Benjamin Vaughan, Esq., of 
Hallowell, his was the largest and best private library in 
the District of Maine. He received the honorar\^ degree 
of Master of Arts, from Dartmouth College, in 1793; and, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 315 

16 Dec. 1805, was made a Fellow of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences. 

Gen. Knox d., after an illness of a few days, on 25 Oct. 
1806. Mrs. Knox d. 20 June, 1824. Out of twelve children, 
nine of whom died in childhood or infancy, only three sur- 
vived their father: LuCY Flucker; Henry Jackson, b. 
24 May, 1780, d. Thomaston, Me., 1830; and CAROLINE, 
who m. (ist) James Swan of Dorchester; (2d) Hon. John 
Holmes of Maine. Both the latter d. without issue. 

HENRY KNOX THATCHER. 

Eldest grandson of Gen. Knox, whom he succ. in 1843; 
b. Thomaston, Me., 26 May, 1806; d. Boston, Mass., 5 April, 
1880. His mother, Lucy Flucker, the General's eldest child, 
b. 1776, d. at Montpelier (Thomaston), 12 Oct. 1854. She 
m. abt. 1803, Ebcnezer Thatcher, b. Cambridge, Mass., 9 
Oct. 1778, d. 9 June, 1841, at Bingham, Me; H. U. 1798; 
practised law in Thomaston; app. 1812, Justice of the Court 
of Common Pleas, which office he held until Maine became 
a State. At one time he held the commission of brigadier- 
general. He was a son of Col. Samuel Thatcher, who won 
distinction at Concord and Lexington, 19 April, 1775, as 
a captain in Col. Gardner's regiment, and was so severely 
wounded as to be crippled for life.* Henry Knox Thatcher, 
the second child and eldest son of Ebenezer, received his 
early education in the Boston schools, and i July, 1822, was 
admitted, at the age of sixteen, as a cadet at the West Point 
Military Academy. The records of the Academy state that 
he was " absent with leave, sick, from 23 Nov. 1822, to 
3 April, 1823." His preference being for the naval service, 
he succeeded, before returning to duty again at West Point, 

* In a memorandum for the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society, Admiral 
Thatcher says : " I trace my ancestors back to 1634. They originated in Essex 
and Sussex in England, on the paternal (Thatcher) side." The genealogy is 
given in Paige's History of Cambridge ; also in Eaton's History of Thomaston. 



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in exchanging his cadetship for a midshipman's appoint- 
ment, which bears the date of 4 March, 1823. He was 
first ordered to the Washington Navy Yard, at the time the 
Mosquito Fleet of Commodore David Porter was being 
equipped for service against the pirates in the West Indian 
and Caribbean seas. From 1824 to 1827 he served on 
board the " United States," the flagship of Commodore 
Isaac Hull, in the Pacific Ocean. In 1829 he was examined 
and promoted to the grade (since abolished) of passed 
midshipman. In 1833 he was commissioned a lieutenant. 
In 1854-55 he was the executive officer of the Naval Asylum 
at Philadelphia; and 14 Sept. 1855, at the age of forty-nine, 
through the action of the naval retiring board, known as 
"the board of fifteen" — which put aside and dismissed 
many ofiicers from the service, — he was promoted from No. 
15 on the lieutenants' list to No. 25 on the list of ninety- 
seven commanders, — an advance of eighty-seven numbers. 
After service on the Pacific coast and in the Mediterranean, 
he was promoted, 16 July, 1862, from No. 9 on the list of 
commanders to No. 16 on the active list of commanders, 
passing the intermediate grade of captain, — a clear advance- 
ment of fifty-one numbers. Desiring active service nearer 
the seat of war, and a command more in accordance with 
his new rank than that of the sailing corvette " Constella- 
tion," in which he was then serving in the Mediterranean, he 
was relieved in July, 1863, and hastening home, was ordered 
at once to the " Colorado," of fifty-two guns, then preparing 
for sea at the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. As soon as 
the frigate was ready he joined the North Atlantic squad- 
ron, and was placed in command of the first division of 
Porter's fleet during the operations which resulted in the 
capture of Fort Fisher. In his official report to the Secre- 
tary of the Navy, dated 28 Jan. 1865, Rear-Admiral Porter 
said : — 



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" After such an engagement and success as this fleet has met with, 
I think it due to the officers engaged to mention those particularly 
who in my opinion deserve the commendation of the Department or 
merit promotion. ... I trust that some promotions will grow out 
of this, if only to show the officers there is reward in store for those 
who do the fighting. 

" First and foremost in the list of commodores is Commodore 
H. K. Thatcher. Full of honest zeal and patriotism, his vessel was 
always ready for action ; and when he did go into it, his ship was 
handled with admirable skill. No vessel in the squadron was so 
much cut up as the ' Colorado ; ' for some reason the rebels se- 
lected her as a target. I believe Commodore Thatcher would have 
fought his ship until she went to the bottom, and went into the fight 
with the full determination to conquer or die. There is no reward 
too great for this gallant officer ; he has shown the kind of ability 
naval leaders should possess, a love of fighting, and an invincible 
courage." 

After this victory, there being no further occasion for the 
large vessels to remain off Wilmington, they were sent North ; 
and Commodore Thatcher was appointed almost immediately 
acting rear-admiral in advance of his regular promotion to 
that grade, and ordered to take command of the West Gulf 
squadron, as the successor of Vice-Admiral Farragut, who, 
after the surrender of the forts at the entrance of Mobile 
Bay, had returned North in ill health. After consultation 
with Maj.-Gen. Canby, Admiral Thatcher says : — 

" It was determined to make a combined movement against the 
city of Mobile and its defenties, which were of immense strength 
and extent, covering a distance from east to west of eight miles, and 
mounting not less than four hundred guns of the newest pattern and 
heaviest calibre. . . . After nineteen days' work we succeeded in cap- 
turing the works, when the troops under Gen. Maury fled to the in- 
terior, leaving the city an easy prey. Being summoned to surrender, 
15 April, 1865, its mayor at once complied with the command; 
but the naval forces under Farrand (Confederate), formerly a com- 
mander in the U. S. navy, fled up the Tombigbee with his fleet, 



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sinking two large iron-clad rams in his flight. Being closely pursued 
by us, he concluded to surrender his entire command yet afloat, con- 
sisting of the ' Nashville,' ' Morgan,' ' Baltic,' and ' Black Diamond,' 
three of which were powerful and superior iron-clads, well armed ; 
one hundred and twelve officers of these rebel vessels were also sur- 
rendered, as well as their crews. Mobile having been secured and 
recovered to the United States, preparations were immediately made 
for attacking Galveston. Whilst these were going on, rebel commis- 
sioners were sent to surrender the State of Texas without further 
contest. The authorities of that State knew the fate of Alabama, 
and that our land and naval force on the Gulf was at liberty to ad- 
vance on them, and deemed prudence the better part of valor." 

Admiral Thatcher went immediately to Galveston in his 
flag-ship and took possession of the forts, manning them 
without opposition from the enemy, and holding them until 
troops were sent from New Orleans by Maj.-Gen. Philip H. 
Sheridan, who had relieved Maj.-Gen. Canby. 

The Secretary of the Navy, after the surrender of Mobile, 
addressed to the Admiral a complimentary letter, dated 29 
April, 1865, in which he said: — 

" I am happy in extending to you and those under your com- 
mand, the congratulations of the Navy Department for this victory, 
which places in our possession, with but one exception, all the chief 
points of our Southern coast, and bids fair to be the closing naval 
contest of the Rebellion." 

On 2 June that one exception referred to, Galveston, was 
surrendered, and the supremacy of the Government was once 
more established on the entire coast, from Maine to and in- 
cluding Texas. After these transactions our naval forces in 
the waters of the Gulf were reduced, and the consolidation 
of the East Gulf squadron, commanded by Acting Rear-Ad- 
miral C. K. Stribling, and the West Gulf squadron under 
Thatcher, was consummated; and thereafter the united force 
was known as the " Gulf squadron," Acting Rear-Admirnl 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 319 

Thatcher remaining in command until May, 1866, when he 
was reheved. Immediately on his arrival North, 22 June, he 
was ordered to the command of the North Pacific squadron, 
in which situation he remained until relieved in August, 1868. 
Soon after he was ordered to the Pacific station, 25 July, 
1866, he was regularly promoted by seniority, and commis- 
sioned a rear-admiral in the U. S. navy, on the active list, 
being then sixty years of age. In compliance with the exist- 
ing law, he was placed upon the retired list, 26 May, 1868, 
but retained his command afloat for the full term of two 
years, or until the following August. 

After his return East in 1869, he was ordered to assume 
the duties of port-admiral at Portsmouth, N. H., which office 
he held until, from motives of economy, it was abolished in 
1 87 1. This was his last active service ; during the remainder 
of his retirement he lived most of the time at his residences 
in Winchester and Nahant, passing a few months in the early 
spring in Boston. 

At the date of his death, 5 April, 1880, he had been at- 
tached to the navy fifty-seven years. Twenty-one years and 
eight months of this time were spent at sea. On the day fol- 
lowing his death, the Secretary of the Navy issued a general 
order in which, after recapitulating " his honorable and meri- 
torious service of fifty-seven years," he directed that flags be 
displayed at half-mast, and minute-guns fired, at all the navy 
yards and stations, and from all the vessels in commission. 

Rear-Admiral Thatcher became Vice-Pres. of the Mass. 
Society of the Cincinnati in 1870, and President in 1871. 
At a special meeting of the Society, Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, 
Vice-Pres., made an address, in which he said: — 

" His loyalty was of that grand and heroic type which makes it 
sweet to die in defence of one's country. His patriotism was of 
that resolute and uncompromising character which shames the arts 
of the politician. The purposes for which this Institution was 



320 UIOGRAI'HICAL NOTICES UF THE 

founded has had no nobler representative. Honored by his coun- 
try, respected and obeyed by his brother officers, belored by his 
associates in public and private life, he has had all that the great 
poet says should accompany old age. We shall miss from our coun- 
cils his practical wisdom and his earnest devotion to the interests of 
the Society, and it will be long before the recollection of his digni- 
fied presence and his genial manners will be forgotten." 

A series of resolutions prepared by Rev. S. K. Lothrop, 
D.D., were adopted. His character and career were fitly 
described in the following words : — 

"We recognize with pride and satisfaction that our deceased 
friend, associate, and president not only bore with honor while living, 
and left untarnished at his death, the name of his grandfather of 
Revolutionary fame and memory, Henry Knox, but by his own gal- 
lant deeds and brave and manly bearing in the service of his country, 
added new lustre and fresh laurels to that name with which here- 
after in this Society his own will ever be associated with reverence 
and honor. 

" In his long career in the navy of the United States, an accom- 
plished seaman, a gallant officer, a wise and considerate commander, 
a loyal, brave, patriotic man, of calm, fearless courage, ready in 
the face of danger and of death to do his duty at all times and at 
all hazards, Rear-Admiral Thatcher has rendered services to his 
country at home and abroad, in peace and in war, that entitle him 
to be held in grateful honor and remembrance. 

" In the private life and character of our departed friend we 
recall with pleasure his many amiable qualities, the frankness and 
simplicity of his manners, the kindness of his disposition, the quick- 
ness of his sympathy with whatever was good, noble, and worthy ; 
all that large, warm-hearted benevolence and honesty, and that 
earnest, steadfast Christian faith, which made it a pleasure and a 
satisfaction to be associated with him, and will cause his memory to 
be long cherished among us." 

In a paper read before the N. E. Historic-Genealogical 
Society in 1882, Rear-Admiral George Henry Preble said: — 



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" He was God's noblest work, an honest man ; a firm friend, an 
agreeable messmate, a sound disciplinarian, yet kind commander ; a 
Christian gentleman, an uncompromising Unionist, a competent and 
brave officer. His chief characteristic was prompt and unhesitating 
obedience to the orders of his superior officers, let the consequences 
be what they may." 

On 26 Dec. 1831, Admiral (then passed midshipman) Thatcher 
Was m. to Susan C, dau. of Andrew Cros-well, M.D., of Plymouth, 
Mass., a graduate of Harvard in the class of i 798, of which Admiral 
Thatcher's father was also a graduate. They had no children. 

HENRY KNOX SIKES. 

Great-grandson of Maj.-Gen. Knox, and nephew of Ad- 
miral Thatcher, whom he succ. in 1883 ; b. Mercer, Me., 
8 May, 1841. He received his education in Fall River, 
Mass.; enlisted in Aug. 1862, as private in Troop G, ist 
N.Y. mounted rifles; served in the several non-commissioned 
grades; was com. lieut. in 1864; was in the campaigns of 
eastern Virginia and North Carolina ; received an honorable 
discharge, Nov. 1865 ; has since been engaged in the insur- 
ance business, and resides in Peoria, 111. 

He m. 7 Aug. 1865, Margaret Armstrong, dau. of Joshua Terry 
of New York City. Children — 
LiLLUN Thatcher, b. 7 Nov. 1867. 
Waldo Henry Knox, b. 3 Jan. 1876. 

Simon Harnfti. 

He was b. Thompson, Ct., 1754; d. Pittsfield, Mass., 
16 Nov. 18 1 7. Ensign in D. Brewer's reg. in May, 1775, and 
present at the siege of Boston ; lieut. in Ebenezer Fran- 
cis's reg. in 1776; adj. of .Shepard's (4th) reg. i Jan. 1777; 
capt. 20 March, 1778; brigade major of Glover's brigade, 9 
March, 1779; aide to Gen. Glover in 1782 He settled in busi- 
ness in Pittsfield in 1784, and was its representative in the 



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Mass. Legislature in 1791 ; was many years sheriff of Berk- 
shire Co. ; M. C. 1801-5 ; col. 9th U. S. inf. 1812-15. 

Of his children, Gen. Charles, a lawyer, was Att.-Gen. of Michi- 
gan, and d. 13 Sept. 1834, se. 42 ; Rev. Sylvester, b. Pittsfield, 31 
Aug. 1796, Middlebury Coll. 1813, was a Presbyterian clergyman, 
and d. New Orleans, 31 -4ug. 1820. 

E2aini.im iLaufll)toii. 

Com. surgeon's mate in Bigelow's (iSth) reg. 20 April, 
1780; in Vose's (1st) reg. 1783. After the war he settled 
in New York.* 

AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE. 

He was b. at Boston, 31 July, 18 14; d. Nahant, 22 Aug. 
1886; adm. 1863, under the rule of 1854. His grandfather. 
Major Samuel, was a corporal in Farwell's company of minute- 
men, Prescott's regiment, and summoned the men to arms on 
the day of the Concord and Lexington fight. He assisted in 
constructing the earthworks on Breed's Hill on the night of 
16 June, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill on the 
following day. During the third assault by the British he 
received a slight wound upon the arm from a spent musket- 
ball, and a bullet passed through his hat, grazing his hair. 
He served in Prescott's reg. during the siege of Boston ; 
and soon after the evacuation of the city by the British, 
he accompanied the regiment to New York and passed the 
summer of 1776 in garrison on Governor's Island, serv- 
ing also in the campaign in Westchester County in 
October. Thence he proceeded northward, and was sta- 
tioned for several months at the entrance of the High- 

* It appears that in i8i5 the N. Y. Society admitted Charles Lawton, son 
of Dr. William Lawton, on the supposition that he was the son of William 
Laughton, the original member of the Mass. Society. Alfred Lawton, the son 
of Charles, applied for admission to the N. Y. Society in 1878, as "the rightful 
representative of Surgeon's Mate William Laughton," but was refused. 



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lands near Peekskill. Early in the summer of 1777 the 
regiment was ordered to Rhode Island; and in July Samuel 
Lawrence, now 2d lieut., obtained a brief leave of absence, 
and returned to his home in Groton, where he was married 
on the twenty-second day of the month to Susanna, eldest 
daughter of William and Sarah Parker. During the cere- 
mony the alarm-bell sounded, again summoning all soldiers 
to their posts. Lieut. Lawrence hastened to rejoin his regi- 
ment, but was permitted to return to his wife on a short 
furlough. He served in the campaign of 1778 in Rhode 
Island, and on 7 Aug. of that year was commissioned adju- 
tant of the regiment of foot, commanded by Col. William 
Mcintosh, and soon afterward was promoted to the rank of 
major. In the battle of Quaker Hill, 29 Aug., he became 
separated from his command, and narrowly escaped capture 
by the British, but W3s gallantly rescued by some members 
of a company of colored troops. At the close of the cam- 
paign he resigned his commission, and was honorably dis- 
charged, 12 Sept. 1778, after having served continuously for 
rnore than three years. He became actively interested in 
town and church affairs in Groton, and served as selectman, 
town-clerk, assessor, and school-committeeman, and held the 
office of a deacon in the church for more than forty years. 
He was a founder and for many years a trustee of the Groton 
Academy, which was afterward generously endowed by his 
sons William and Amos, and was then called " Lawrence 
Academy." 

Amos Lawrence, the father of Amos Adams, was the fourth 
son of Major Samuel. With his brother Abbott, who was 
afterward a member of Congress and minister to the Court 
of St. James, he founded the well-known house of A. & A. 
Lawrence. 

Amos Adams Lawrence, the subject of this notice, grad- 
uated at Har\'ard in 1835, ^"d soon afterward entered the 



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commission house of Ahny, Patterson, & Co., for the purpose 
of learning the business. In 1843, after having been abroad 
for two or three years, he formed a partnership with Robert 
M. Mason, under the firm name of Mason & Lawrence. The 
partnership continued until 1858, when Mr. Mason retired, 
and the name of the firm was changed to Lawrence & Co., 
under which name the business is still conducted. Mr. Law- 
rence held the selling agency of the Cocheco Mills and the 
Salmon Falls Company for over forty years. In i860 he 
bought a mill at Ipswich for the manufacture of hosiery and 
knit-goods, and after sustaining heavy losses for a time, 
succeeded in putting the business on a paying basis. The pur- 
chase, later, of the Gilmanton and Ashland Mills in New Hamp- 
shire made him the largest knit-goods manufacturer in this 
country. In 1870 he took the selling agency of the Arlington 
Mills in Lawrence; and in 1883 the great business of the 
Pacific Mills Corporation was placed in the hands of his firm. 
He was for some time President of the National Association of 
Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, and also of the Associa- 
tion of Knit-Goods Manufacturers. The position he occupied 
as the representative of the leading manufacturers of textile 
fabrics gave great weight to his views on the tariff question. 
In the earlier part of his business life he advocated a high 
tariff for the protection of infant industries ; but as years 
passed he believed in the gradual reduction of that protection, 
and in later years he was very positive in the advocacy of 
more moderate duties, especially on raw materials.* 

Although a member of the Whig party, and " conservative 
by inheritance and education," he could not follow the lead- 
ers of that party in their compromises with slavery; but at 
the same time he regarded with many misgivings the course 
pursued by the Free-Soilers in stirring up sectional feeling 

* Life of Amos A. Lawrence, by his son \Vm. K. Lawrence, p. 249. 



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which endangered the union of the States. The repeal of the 
Missouri Compromise, and the attempt to introduce slavery 
into the Territory of Kansas, moved him to take an active part 
in resisting the aggressions of the slave power. He con- 
sented to act as treasurer and one of the trustees of the New 
England Emigrant Aid Company ; the object of which was 
to promote the emigration to Kansas of persons opposed to 
slavery there, and to prevent by all legal and constitutional 
means its establishment either there or in the adjoining Terri- 
tory of Nebraska. When it became necessary, in order to 
protect the settlers from the free States against the lawless 
raids from Missouri, that arms should be furnished to those 
who had gone out under the auspices of the Emigrant Aid 
Society, Mr. Lawrence, to whom anything secret or under- 
hand was impossible, wrote directly to the President of the 
United States (15 July, 1855), that as the attitude of the 
General Government had forced the settlers to the conclusion 
that if they would be safe they must defend themselves, 
" many persons here (in Boston) who refused at first (myself 
included) have rendered them assistance, by furnishing them 
the means of defence." The means of defence referred to 
were Sharp's rifles. It is impossible within the limits of this 
notice to give any idea of the work performed by Mr. Law- 
rence in bringing this great contest between freedom and 
slavery to a right conclusion. After the smoke and dust of 
the conflict had passed, and Kansas had been enrolled among 
the free States, Gov. Robinson wrote to him : — 

" You may not know it, and the people of Kansas may not be 
sensible of it, but I am very much mistaken in my estimate of the 
influences that have contributed to the freedom of Kansas, if we 
are not far more indebted to you than to any other man for our suc- 
cess. Without your name the Emigrant Aid Company would have 
been a cipher, and without your encouragement, courage, and sup- 
port what little I have been able to do would have been left 
undone." 



326 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

When the war broke out in 1861, although beyond the 
age for active duty in the field, he was among the first to offer 
his services to the Government, expressing his readiness to do 
anything which others thought him capable of doing. His 
business sagacity and experience were in constant requisition 
by the National and State authorities. He recruited the 2d 
reg. M%ss. cavalry, which, under the command of Col. 
Charles R. Lowell (appointed upon Mr. Lawrence's request), 
made a brilliant record. He also aided in recruiting and 
organizing the first colored regiment, so gallantly led by 
Col. Robert G. Shaw. 

After the war he took a leading part in securing funds for 
the erection of Memorial Hall at Cambridge. While carry- 
ing on a very large business, he yet found time to take an 
active interest in the educational, philanthropic, and religious 
movements, not only in his own communit}- but in distant 
parts of the country. He contributed largely to the founda- 
tion of Lawrence University in the town of Appleton, Wis. ; 
he was for a time Treasurer and afterward Overseer of Har- 
vard College; he built the dormitory known as Lawrence 
Hall for the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge ; he 
joined his brother in building the " Church of Our Saviour," 
in Longwood; and he aided the Rev. E. M. P. Wells in his 
missionary work. It may be said of him, as it was said of 
his uncle Abbott Lawrence, " His name was a tower of 
strength to every good cause, and it was never given to a 
bad one." 

His descent from John * Laivrcncc, who came to Watertown 
1636, to Groton 1662, d. 11 July, 1667, and wife Elizabeth, was 
through Nathaniel,^ b. 15 Oct. 1639, d. 14 April, 1724, m. 13 
March, 1660-61, Sarah, dau. of John and Hannah Morse of Ded- 
\\a.va; John? b. 29 July, 1667, d. 12 March, 1746-47, who m. 
9 Nov. 1687, Anna Tarbell ; A7nos* b. 13 Feb. 1715-16, d. 20 
June, 1785, m. 7 Nov. 1749, Abigail, dau. of Nehemiah Abbott of 
Lexington; Major .SV?;;///^/,^ b. 24 .\pril, 1734, m. 22 July, 1777, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 327 

Susannah Parker; Aiiws^ (his father), b. 22 April, 1786, d. 31 Dec. 
1852, m. 6 June, 1811, Sarah, dau. of Giles and Sarah (Adams) 
Richards of Dedham. 

He m. 31 March, 1842, Sarah E., dau. of William Appleton, and 
had — 

Marianne Appleton, b. 12 May, 1843. 

Sarah, b. 5 July, 1845. 

Amory Appleton. 

William, b. 30 May, 1850. 

Susan Mason, b. 4 Feb. 1852. 

Hetty Sullivan, b. 21 Nov. 1855. 

Harriett Dexter, b. 8 June, 1S58. 

AMORY APPLETON LAWRENCE. 

Eldest son of Amos Adams, whom he succ. in 1888; was 
b. Boston, 22 April, 1848. He graduated from Harvard 
University in 1870, and went into business with his father in 
Boston. He soon became a partner, and after his father's 
death he continued the business. This brought him into the 
same close contact with the manufacturing interests of New 
England that both his father and grandfather had enjoyed. 

He m. I June, 1871, Emily Fairfax, dau. of John B. Silsbee. 
Children — 

Amos Amory, b. i Dec. 1874. . 
John Silsbee, b. 6 Sept. 1878. 
Edith, b. 10 Nov. 1879. 

Watijantrl ILcaiJtntoortl). 

He was of Waterbury, Ct. ; com. surgeon's mate in M. 
Jackson's (8th) reg. i Feb. 1780; d. before 1812. 

29anitl U.tt. 

Of Sheffield; lieut. in Sprout's (12th) reg.; com. I Feb. 
1781, capt. in Greaton's (3d) reg.; retired, I Jan. 1783; 
living in Paris, Me., in 1797 ; pensioner living in Pennsylvania 
in 1820. 



328 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He was b. Manchester, Mass., 1744; d. Salem, Mass., 26 
Oct. 1824. He removed in early life to Marblehead, where 
he was a merchant at the breaking out of the Revolutionary 
war. He was senior capt. in Glover's reg. early in 1775; 
com. major in June, 1775; served in the campaigns in New 
York and New Jersey in 1776-77; and on Glover's becom- 
ing brig. -gen. he made him his brigade-major. This famous 
regiment, known as the " marine " and the " amphibious," 
rendered inestimable service in equipping and manning the 
first cruisers of the war; in ferrying Washington and his 
retreating army over the East River from Long Island under 
cover of a fog on the night of 29 Aug. 1776; and at the no 
less critical passage of the "Delaware" on 25 Dec. 1776, on 
the eve of the victory of Trenton. For this latter service 
Lee was commissioned colonel, i Jan. 1777, of an additional 
continental battalion to be raised in Massachusetts. He 
commanded it at Cambridge, where it served as a guard 
over Burgoyne's captured army, and in Aug. 1778, in Sulli- 
van's Rhode Lsland campaign. Soon after that campaign 
he resigned. Washington offered him the position of adju- 
tant-general of the army in April, 1777; but he declined, 
preferring, as he stated, to remain in the field at the head 
of his regiment. He was Collector of the Port of Salem from 
1802 till his death. 

WILLIAM RAYMOND LEE. 

Eldest grandson of Col. William R. Lee, whom he succ. in 
1867. His profession is that of civil engineer. He served 
during the war of the Rebellion, 1861-65, as colonel of the 
20th Mass. Infantry, and was brevetted brig.-gen. for gal- 
lant and meritorious services. He was Chief Engineer of 
M. V. M. on the staff of his Excellency John A. Andrew, 
with the rank of brig.-gen., and was charged with the duty 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 329 

of preparing a system of obstructions to the entrances of 
Boston harbor. From 1868 to 1872 he was U. S. Assessor 
of Internal Revenue, 3d District of Massachusetts. He 
resides at Jamaica Plain. 

He was b. Grafton, Mass., 1757; d. Saco, Me., 1839. He 
entered the army as a private or non-com. officer; was 
com. lieut. in Wesson's (9th) reg. 28 Dec. 1777; in M. Jack- 
son's (8th) reg. in 1783. He was afterward a member of 
the Mass. Senate, and settled in Saco, Me., as a merchant. 

His descent from Henry ^ Lclaiul, b. Eng. ab. 1625, came to 
America, 1652, d. Sherburne, Mass., 4 April, 1680, who m. Margaret 
Badcock, was through Ehenezei-^ b. 25 Jan. 1657, d. 1742, who 

m. Deborah ; James^ b. 1687, d. 1768, settled in Grafton in 

1735, m. Hannah Lamed; Phineas* (his father), b. 1730, d. 1773, 
who m. Lydia Fletcher. 

Joseph, by his wife Dorcas, sister of Hon. Rufus, Hon. Cyrus, and 
Hon. William King, had one son, Joseph Warren, who survived 
him, and six daughters, of whom three d. childless and three left 
children, namely: Betsey, b. 1791, who m. Nathan Lord, and had 
nine sons, of whom four left descendants : Harriet, b. 1795, who m. 
William Richardson and had several sons ; Jane M., who m. Robert 
Read. 

JOSEPH WARREN LELAND. 

Son of Joseph, whom he succ. in 1852; b. Saco, 1805; 
d. there 7 Sept. 1858; Bowdoin Coll. 1826. He practised 
law in Saco, and was county attorney there for some years, 
between 1837 and 1849. He. m. Hannah Scamman, but left 
no issue. William King Richardson, of Boston, grandson of 
Harriet (Leland) Richardson, was elected in 1889 as succes- 
sor to Joseph Warren Leland, his great-uncle. 



330 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He was b. Bridgewater, Mass., 1757; d. there in April, 
1 841 ; com. ensign in Sprout's (^2d) reg. 27 Feb. 1782. 

Son of Capt. Solomon and Joanna (Washburn) Leonard; m. 
Mary, dau. of Isaac Smith, in 1788, and had Levi Washburn 
Leonard. 

S^oJjn afllie. 

He was b. Boston, 18 July, 1753; d. West Point, N. Y., 
22 Sept. 1 801. He received a good common-school educa- 
tion ; was a cooper by trade, and was a member of Paddock's 
artillery Co. before the war. Com. 2d licut. in Morton's Co. 
of Gridley's reg. i May, 1775, and present at the siege of 
Boston; 1st lieut. in Knox's reg. of artillery in 1776; capt.- 
lieut. in Crane's in 1777; com. capt. i Nov. 1778; aide-de- 
camp to Gen. Knox, i May, 1782; app. capt. of 2d U. S. 
artillery, 16 Feb. 1801, and commanded at West Point at the 
time of his death. From a letter addressed by him to Gen. 
Samuel Smith, M. C. from Maryland, we take the following 
record of his service : — - 

"If my services in the action on Long Island [27 Aug. 1776], 
and assisting in the retreat from a very formidable British army, — 
if with six men, in a small boat, after the evacuation of Governor's 
Island by our troops, I went over, unspiked some of the cannon, 
iired on the ' Roebuck ' of 44 guns, obliging her to slip her cables 
and retire to Staten Island, by which means we went over in the 
night, with 100 men, and brought off all the guns and stores to New 
York, — if the service performed with two twelve-pounders in can- 
nonading the ' Rose,' from an open field, when commanded by Capt. 
Wallace, was of any utility to our cause, — if by assisting with two 
six-pounders in defending Chatterton's Hill, in front of White Plains, 
four hours, in presence of the whole British army, where you acted 
well your part, and so many of your brave regiment fell by our side, 
— if on our retreat through the mire of New Jersey, bootless, and 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 33 1 

scarcely a shoe, when the soldiers were so disheartened that a whole 
brigade of militia to which I was then annexed deserted me in one 
night, leaving my artillery without protection, except a small band 
of veterans, which with some address I kept together by my com- 
pany, — - if on that memorable, that most important night for Amer- 
ica, when her liberty or bondage was vibrating by a single thread, 
I did my duty at the attack of Trenton, that night which, it may 
almost be said, sealed the independence of our country, — if in the 
advance of the army to Princeton, almost barefooted, over frozen 
ground, where the brave Gen. Mercer fell a few feet from my side 
in the first of the attack, — if at Chad's Ford, on the Brandywine, I 
sustained the heat of the action, and brought off my artillery safe, — 
if on that dark, dismal night at Paoli, with Gen. Wayne, ... I 
brought off my artillery through morasses and woods, after having 
been surrounded by the enemy ; and being in front of the column 
with Gen. Wayne, in the attack of Germantown, where we drove the 
grenadiers and guards nearly three miles, I supported a soldier's 
character through the day, — if on that melting Sunday, in addition 
to my other duties at Monmouth [28 June, 1778], I took the first 
prisoner by single combat, a sergeant of grenadiers, with his arms, 
and brought him to Gen. Lee, from whom we received early infor- 
mation of the enemy's position and strength, — if at the close of 
eight years' service, as far as I know my own heart, I sheathed a 
sword without a tarnish by dishonor, which had been the companion 
of my toils during that period, ... if there is any merit in these 
transactions, I would only claim my little share by having done the 
duty assigned me on the theatre of the late war." 

The following certificate was given him by Washington, 
under date of i Dec. 1783: — 

" Whereas Capt. John Lillie hath behaved with great propriety 
during his military service, I have therefore thought proper to grant 
this certificate, thereby making known that the said Capt. Lillie en- 
tered the army as a second lieutenant of artillery the ist of May, 1775 ; 
that he was appointed to a first lieutenancy in the year 1776, to a 
captain-lieutenancy in 1777, and in Aug. 1780, was promoted to be 
a captain. He was also appointed aide-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Knox, 
on the first day of May, 1782. In all which several stations and 



332 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

capacities I do hereby further certify and make it known that the 
aforesaid Capt. Lilhe has conducted himself on all occasions with 
dignity, bravery, and intelligence." 

Major Samuel Shaw, writing of him in 17S1 (Journals, 
p. 91), says that his "reputation as an officer is second to 
none of his rank in service." 

Capt. Lillie was presented vyith a sword by Washington, 
and also with one by La Fayette, which is now in possession 
of his grandson, Hon. Henry L. Pierce. Major Samuel Shaw, 
also an aide to Gen. Knox, was cousin to Lillie. In 1868 his 
grandchildren, John and Daniel C. Lillie, erected a monu- 
ment to his memory in the cemetery at West Point. 

He m. 20 Jan. i 7S5, Elizabeth Vose of Milton, by whom he had — 

Eliza Smith, b. 30 July, 1 786, m. Col. Jesse Pierce, father of 
Hon. Henry Lillie, b. 23 Aug. 1825, and Edward Lillie (LL.D.), 
b. 29 March, 1S29. 

Patience H., b. 11 April, 1789. 

John. 

Mary Anna, b. 22 Aug. 1794, m. Woodward, living in Pal- 
myra, N. Y., in 1808. 

Samuel Shaw, b. 3 Jan. 1796. 

Daniel Thomas, b. 15 Sept. 1797. 

JOHN LILLIE. 

Eldest son of Major John, whom he succ. in 1812; b. 
Milton, Mass., 8 May, 1791 ; d. Willimantic, Ct., 20 Jan. 
1855. He was the eighth cadet admitted to West Point 
Academy, whence he graduated in 1805 ; was for a short 
time during the war of 181 2 a capt. of Mass. militia; was 
afterward engaged in mercantile business near Boston, sub- 
sequently in Maine, and after 1848 in Willimantic. 

DANIEL CAMPBELL LILLIE. 

Eldest son of John, whom he succ. in 1855 ; was b. in Kcn- 
ncbunk. Me., 27 Feb. 1S28. Received his education in the 





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public schools and at the Bridgewater Academy. Resides in 
North Easton, Mass. 

He m. 19 April, 1849, Hannah Augusta, dau. of Smith Adams 
Stearns. " They have — 

Marianna Woodward, b. Aug. 31, 1867. 

iSftiiamtn ILincoIn. 

Major-gen. of the Revolutionary army, and the first PRESI- 
DENT of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati ; was b. at 
Hingham, Mass., 24 Jan. 1733. Thomas Lincoln, his emigrant 
ancestor, who was from Suffolk County, England, was by trade 
a cooper; was granted a house-lot in Hingham, Mass., in 1636, 
and this house-lot is still in possession of his descendants. 
His great-grandson, Col. Benjamin, a maltster and a farmer, 
was for several years a member of the General Court, and 
one of the Council of Massachusetts in 1753-70. 

His elder son, the subject of this sketch, received the rudi- 
ments of an ordinary English education at the common schools 
of the town, and pursued the calling of a farmer. In 1757, and 
for many years thereafter, he was town clerk. In 1752 he was 
made a justice of the peace for the county, and in 1763 for 
the Province. He was active in the opposition made to the 
measures of the British ministry, was. a member of the Legis- 
lature in 1772-74, and of the Provincial Congress of 1774-75, 
of which body he was Secretary; and he was also a member 
of the Committee of Supplies, upon whom devolved the ardu- 
ous duty of providing munitions for the impending contest. 
He acted as President of Congress during the last week of 
its session in July, 1775, in the absence of James Warren, 
and was then appointed a member of the Council. 

In 1755 he was commissioned by Gov. Shirley as an officer 
of militia; was appointed major of the 3d Suffolk reg. in 
1 77 1, and its lieut.-col. in 1772. In Feb. 1776, he was com- 



334 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OK THE 

missioned by the Council as a brig. -gen. ; and in May, 1776, 
a maj.-gen., and had the chief direction of military affairs in 
Massachusetts throughout the summer. Under his directions 
the militia erected batteries upon some of the islands in 
Boston harbor, by which, 14 June, several British armed ships 
which had remained in Nantasket road after Howe's army 
had left Boston were driven from the bay. 

Lincoln was appointed, 2 Aug., to the command of the 
militia which had been called into active service at or near 
Boston, and thenceforth gave all his time to military duties, 
which included the construction of defensive works in Boston 
harbor. After the defeat at Long Island, one fifth of the 
Mass. militia were drafted and ordered to New York under 
his command. They reached Fairfield, Ct., at the close of 
Sept.; and a portion, under Lincoln, joined Washington at 
York Island. His services were of such importance that 
upon Washington's recommendation Congress, 19 Feb. 1777, 
appointed him a major-general in the continental service. 

While at Boundbrook, the most advanced post of the 
army in New Jersey, with about 500 men, he was, through 
the neglect of his patrols, surprised at daybreak of 13 April 
by Cornwallis and Grant ; but before the two columns of 
the enemy closed in his rear, he effected a retreat, with the 
loss of about sixty men killed, wounded, and taken, and three 
small pieces of artillery. Detached to join the Northern 
army operating against Burgoyne, he reached Fort Miller, 
29 July, and soon collected a large force of militia at Man- 
chester, Vt. By sending Warner's reg. to the aid of Stark, 
he contributed greatly to the success of that officer at Ben- 
nington, by which the British invading army was so seriously 
crippled. He also detached a successful expedition under 
Col. Brown against the British post at Lake George, and on 22 
Sept. joined Gates's army at Stillwater, leaving detachments 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 335 

Placed in command of the right wing, he had no share 
in the action of 7 Oct. ; but on the foUowing morning, while 
leading a body of militia to take post in the enemy's rear, he 
encountered a small party of British soldiers, whom he mis- 
took for Americans, and was severely wounded, being struck 
by a shot which fractured his right leg. After a tedious and 
painful confinement of nearly a year, he recovered the use 
of his leg; but he walked lame for the rest of his life. Re- 
joining the army in Aug. 1778, he was, 25 Sept., appointed 
to the chief command in the Southern department, and 
reached Charleston, S. C, early in Dec. Here he was soon 
actively employed, for on the 25th he learned that the ene- 
my's fleet had arrived at Tybee ; and on the 29th that they 
had effected a landing, routed the Americans under Gen. 
Robert Howe, and gained Savannah. He immediately put 
his troops in motion to prevent the enemy from overrunning 
Georgia. On 2 March, 1779, Gen. Ashe was defeated at 
Brier Creek ; and thus Lincoln lost nearly one fourth of his 
army. On 23 April, being reinforced, he resumed his plan 
of covering the upper part of Georgia by marching to 
Augusta. Meanwhile Prevost, the British commander, hav- 
ing moved toward Charleston, to induce Lincoln to relinquish 
his design, the latter recrossed the Savannah, and returned 
to that city. He attacked Gen. Prevost at Stono, 20 June, 
but was obliged to retreat after a severe action, the co-oper- 
ating force under Moultrie having failed to appear until some 
time after the battle was over. The numerous difficulties and 
embarrassments he had to contend with at the South, and the 
unfavorable effect of the climate upon his health induced 
him to desire a release from his burdensome command; and 
Congress voted in complimentary terms to allow him to 
resign his separate command and to rejoin the main army; 
but the earnest remonstrances of Gov. Rutledge, Gen. Moul- 
trie, and others led him to reconsider his determination. 



336 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Early in Sept., in conjunction with Count d'Estaing, an 
attack was made upon Savannah, Ga., which was summoned 
to surrender on the i6th. On the 17th Col. Maitland, an 
active and skilful British officer, succeeded in entering the 
town with a reinforcement, and it was concluded to try the 
efifect of cannon and mortars. Before proper siege-works 
could be completed, the Count informed Lincoln that the 
siege must either be immediately abandoned, or a final effiDrt 
made to take the town by storm. The latter course being 
adopted, an assault took place, 9 Oct., and was made with 
the utmost gallantry, but was unsuccessful : the attacking 
columns were repulsed with great loss, and the siege was at 
once raised. Savannah would doubtless have fallen, had the 
assault been made immediately after the junction of the two 
allied armies, and before Maitland had reinforced it. 

Gen. Lincoln at once returned to Charleston, and applied 
himself actively in preparations for its defence. Sir Henry 
Clinton, with 8,000 men, arrived at the mouth of the Savan- 
nal», 30 Jan. 1780, and on being soon afterward joined by 
Gen. Paterson with 1,400 more from Savannah, proceeded to 
attack Charleston. The British fleet having run past Fort 
Moultrie, the command of the harbor was lost, and the place 
rendered untenable. 

The first parallel of the besiegers being completed 10 
April, the garrison were summoned to an unconditional sur- 
render, which was promptly refused. Firing was immedi- 
ately commenced, to annoy and retard the enemy in their 
approaches, and continued till the 13th, when their batteries 
were opened, and a constant fire was kept up by both par- 
ties till the 20th, when the second parallel being finished, 
within 300 yards of our lines, terms were offered by the gar- 
rison, but rejected. Hostilities were renewed on the 2 1st, 
and continued with redoubled fury to the 23d, when the 
enemy began their third parallel from 80 to i 50 yards from 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 337 

our lines. From this to 8 May they were employed in mak- 
ing three batteries thereon, when another demand of sur- 
render was made by the besiegers. Terms were again sent 
out, but not acceded to ; and a heavy and incessant fire was 
maintained from the 9th to the nth, when it was found neces- 
sary to capitulate. Says the General : — 

" Having received an address from the principal inhabitants, and 
from a number of the country militia, desiring that I would accept 
the terms, and a request from the Lieut.-Governor and Council that 
the negotiations might be renewed ; the militia of the town having 
thrown down their arms ; our provisions, saving a little rice, being 
exhausted ; the troops on the lines being worn down by fatigue, 
having for a number of days been obliged to lay upon the ban- 
quette ; our harbor closely blocked up ; completely invested by land 
by 9,000 men, at least the flower of the British army in America, 
besides the large force they could at all times draw from their 
marine, and aided by a great number of blacks in their laborious 
employments ; the garrison at this time (exclusive of sailors) but 
little exceeding 2,500 men, part of whom had thrown down their 
arms ; the citizens in general discontented ; the enemy being within 
twenty yards of our lines, and preparing to make a general assault 
by sea and land ; many of our cannon dismounted, and others 
silenced for want of shot ; a retreat being judged impracticable, and 
every hope of timely succor cut off, — we were induced to offer and 
accede to the terms executed on 1 2 May." 

The motives and feelings that prompted Gen. Lincoln 
rather to risk a siege than evacuate Charleston were most 
honorable to him as a man and a soldier. He could not cal- 
culate on the utter despondence and inactivity of the people 
who should have come to his succor. The toils, an.xieties, 
and hazards of the siege gave the fullest scope to his wisdom, 
patience, and valor. His exertions were incessant. He was 
on the lines night and day, and for the last fortnight never 
undressed to sleep. 

Notwithstanding his ill success, Lincoln suffered no diminu- 



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tion of the respect and confidence of the army and its Com- 
mander-in-Chief, or of Congress and the country at large. 
Having been exchanged in November for Gen. Phillips, he 
took the command of a division of the army at New Wind- 
sor, in June, 1781 ; accompanied it southward in August, and 
had his full share in the .siege of Yorktovvn and the capture 
of Cornwallis. On this occasion the latter was obliged to 
accept precisely the same terms of capitulation that he had 
aided in imposing upon Lincoln at Charleston. Congress, 
30 Oct., 1 781, appointed Gen. Lincoln Secretary of War, 
which post he resigned in October, 1783. He then resumed 
the care of his farm; engaged in the purchase and settlement 
of wild lands in Maine, where he established one of his sons; 
and in 1784, and again in 1786, was appointed one of the 
Mass. commissioners to treat with the Penobscot Indians. 
During Shays's insurrection in 1786-87, Lincoln, as major- 
general of the first division of the Mass. militia, was placed in 
command of the State troops ; and by prompt, skilful, and 
decisive measures, the insurgents were speedily dispersed. 
Gen. Lincoln was elected Lieut. -Gov. of the State m 1788, 
and was a member of the Mass. Convention which in Feb 
1788, ratified the Federal Constitution. In Aug. 1789, he 
was appointed Collector of the Port of Boston, and held 
office until his resignation, in 1809. In the autumn of 
1779 he was appointed a commissioner, together with Cyrus 
Griffin and David Humphreys, to treat with the Creek In- 
dians; and in April, 1793, he was one of the commissioners 
to make peace with the Indians north of the Ohio, but 
was unsuccessful. His journal of this expedition has been 
published in the Collections of the Mass. Historical So- 
ciety. He became a member of that Society in 1798, aftid 
contributed papers published in its Collections: "On the 
Climate, Soil, and Value of the Eastern Counties of the 
District of Maine ; " " On the Religious State of the Eastern 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 339 

Counties;" and "On the Indian Tribes: the Causes of 
their Decrease," etc. He also contributed a paper " On 
the Growth of Trees," etc., to Cary's "American Magazine." 
He was one of the early members of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences ; and was President of the Mass. 
Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until his death. In 
1780 the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred 
on him by Harvard College. The following delineation of 
his life and character, from the pen of Rev. Dr. Kirkland, 
President of Harvard College, was read before the Mass. 
Historical Society, and published in Vol. III. second series, 
of their Collections : — 

" The interval between General Lincoln's relinquishment of the 
office of Collector and his death passed in much serenity. He daily 
experienced the increasing weight of years, but without any severe 
pain. After a short attack of disease, he expired on the 9th of 
May, 1 8 10, aged 77 years. 

" In General Lincoln's character, strength and softness, the esti- 
mable and amiable qualities, were happily blended. His mind was 
quick and active, yet discriminating and sound. He displayed a 
fund of thought and information, derived from select though limited 
reading, from careful observation of men and things, from habits of 
thinking, and from conversation. A degree of enthusiasm or exulta- 
tion of feeling upon the objects of his pursuit belonged to his tem- 
perament, but it was under the control of good sense and sober 
views. He was patient and cool in deliberarion ; in execution, 
prompt and vigorous. A real and effective but not forward or 
bustling energy pertained to his character. His virtues maintained 
their proper bounds, and were well tempered together. He was con- 
spicuous for plain, strict, inflexible integrity, imited however with 
prudence, candor, a liberal and compassionate disposition. He had, 
it was said, by constitution strong passions ; but they were so dis- 
ciplined by reason and religion, and qualified and counteracted by 
good sentiment and generous feelings, that they never betrayed him 
into any extravagance, nor suffered him to give way to any impulse 
of anger. His composure and self-possession, his exemption from 



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any apparent weakness or folly, uniform discretion and integrity, 
made him revered ; whilst the goodness of his disposition and his 
frank and cordial manners engaged affectionate regard. He knew 
how to exercise command without exciting aversion. Paying defer- 
ence to the rights and feelings of others, whether present or absent, 
his own were not likely to suffer injury or insult. By an expressive 
look, which was understood, by an anecdote, by pleasant irony, or 
more directly, he was sure to notice and to repress any symptoms of 
impertinence or rudeness which any might show in his presence. 

" He was always an early riser, temperate in his habits, fnigal 
without parsimony, diligent and methodical in his business, and able 
to do much without inconvenience or hurry. The qualities and 
habits mentioned, with a rational religious faith, and sincere piety, 
would naturally be attended by ease and health of heart. General 
Lincoln was habitually cheerful, and was accustomed to look on the 
bright side of objects. He was tender, but not given to indulging 
the wail of sensibility or a spirit of repining and discontent. He 
believed in the great preponderance of good in the human condition, 
often mentioning particularly the resources and comforts accommo- 
dated to the successive periods of life, as affording proofs of the 
goodness of the Creator. He thought gratitude, acquiescence, and 
hope a tribute at all times due to a wise and benevolent Providence. 
He was called to encounter adversity in different forms, some of 
which were of a nature to dishearten an ordinary man ; but his 
fortitude and equanimity never 'forsook him, and he always main- 
tained an erect attitude. 

" As a military commander he was judicious, brave, determined, 
indefatigable. His distinguished merit in this character was never 
denied,"whilst all have not agreed in opinion upon some of his plans 
in the Southern command. Being a soldier of the Revolution, he 
had to anticipate the effect of experience, and might commit mis- 
takes. He was surrounded by difficulties ; he met extraordinary dis- 
appointments in his calculations upon supplies and succors. In the 
principal instances which issued unfortunately, the storming of Sa- 
vannah and the siege of Charleston, he had but a choice of evils ; and 
whichever way he decided, the course rejected would have seemed 
to many persons more eligible. He had true courage, without rash- 
ness. His calmness in danger seemed like unconcern ; but he af- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 34 1 

firmed that he never was exposed without feeling deeply interested 
for his own life and the lives of others. 

" In civil functions of a public nature, such as the office of lieut.- 
governor, magistrate, and member of a political body, he took the 
plain way of probity and patriotism, not despising popular favor, but 
never pursuing it as an end, and never thinking it an equivalent for 
the sacrifice of principle. He experienced the benefit of his weight 
of character and the sense entertained by the community of his pub- 
lic services, in being suffered to retain his office of Collector, long 
after the Federal party, to which he belonged, had lost power. 

" Religion exerted its full influence over the mind and conduct of 
General Lincoln. He was a Christian of the anti-sectarian, catholic, 
or liberal sect. He was firm in his faith, serious and affectionate in 
his piety, without superstition, fanaticism, or austerity. He was from 
early manhood a communicant, and or a great part of his life a 
deacon of a church. Amidst the license so common in armies, no 
profane expression or irreverent sally escaped his lips ; and no stain 
came upon the purity of his Ufe. 

" The person and air of General Lincoln betokened his military 
vocation. He was of middle height, and erect, broad-chested, mus- 
cular, in his latter years corpulent, with open, InteUigent features, a 
venerable and benign aspect. His manners were easy and unaffected, 
but courteous and polite. He delighted in children, and made him- 
self beloved by them. He admitted young persons of merit to 
his intimacy, let them into his sentiments on interesting subjects, 
and was forward to aid their reputation and advancement in the 
world. He had a high relish for the pleasures of conversation, in 
which he bore his part without tediousness or prolixity, with good 
sense, delicate raillery, well-timed anecdote, and always a moral 
vein. He was a constant and zealous friend. If his judgment was 
ever surprised by his feelings, it was when he was requested to take 
pecuniary responsibilities for an old companion-in-arms, which sub- 
jected him to much temporary inconvenience, though to no ultimate 
loss. 

" His house was the seat of real hospitality. The accession to 
his income during the last twenty years of his life was applied to a 
decent .provision for his advancing age, to the increase of his chari- 
ties, and to the benefit of his numerous family. He twice made a 
distribution of considerable sums among his children. 



342 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

" He lived in great conjugal happiness with the wife of his youth 
more than fifty-five years, and had sons and daughters, in whom and 
in their descendants he found the greatest solace. He saw his chil- 
dren established in his town or in neighboring places. In his do- 
mestic relations General Lincoln was distinguished by his accurate 
and amiable discharge of every duty." 

His descent from Thomas ' Lincoln, the cooper, who d. 2 Sept. 
1675, ^"^^ ^'^° ™- ^ *^^^- °^ Andrew Lane, was through Benjamin^ 
b. 7 May, 1643, d. 27 Sept. 1700, m. 6 Feb. 1667, Sarah Fearing; 
Benjamin^ \>. 16 Jan. 1672; Col. ^«7/a;«/« * (his father), who d. 
I March, 1771. Gen. Lincoln m. Mary, dau. of Elijah and Eliza- 
beth (Barker) Gushing, and had — 

Benjamin, b. i Nov. 1756, H. U. 1777, began the practice of law 
in Boston, and d. 1 788. By his wife Mary, dau. of James Otis, 
he had Benjamin, H. U. 1806, a physician, who d. Demerara, 
in Aug. 1813 ; andjatnes Otis, H. U. 1807, a lawyer, who m. 
Elizabeth Otis, dau. of Gen. George Stillman of Machias, Me., 
and d. Hingham, 12 Aug. 1818. 
Theodore, grad. H. U. 1785; went to Dennysville, Me., May, 
I 786 ; was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts ; adm. to 
the Society in 1828, but failed to qualify; and d. 15 June, 
1852, EC. 88. 
Martin, b. Hingham, 19 Aug. 1769, d. there 12 April, 1837. His 
children and grandchildren still occupy the old homestead, 
which has now for eight successive generations been the family- 
seat, — a fact rarely met with in tliis country. 

THEODORE LINCOLN. 

Eldest son of Theodore, and grandson of Gen. Benjamin, 
whom he succ. in 1854; was b. Dennysville, Me., 10 Feb. 
1800; d. there 16 April, 1867. He was many years Treasurer 
of his native town, and was noted for honesty and uprightness. 

He m. 25 Sept. 1823, Elizabeth C., dau. of Abner Lincoln of 
Hingham, Mass. His eldest son, Theodore, served three years as 
an officer in a Maine regiment in the war of the Rebellion, and died, 
soon after returning to his home in Dennysville, of disease contracted 
in the service. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 343 

BENJAMIN LINCOLN. 

Second son of Theodore, whom he succ. in 1867; b. 
Dennysville, Me , 5 Dec. 1832. He was educated in Dennys- 
ville, and is engaged in business there as a manufacturer of 
lumber. He served six years as a member of the Board 
of County Commissioners for Washington County, and has 
been for several years a member of the Board of Selectmen 
of Dennysville 

He m. 31 Oct. 1856, Deborah R., dau. of Ebenezer Gardner. 
Children — 

Sarah G., b. 25 Nov. 1858. 

William S., b. 12 Sept. i860. 

Benjamin, b. 13 May, 1863, d. 27 Aug. 1863. 

Theodore, b. i March, 1866. 

Hannah G., b. 6 Nov. 1869. 

Hufus Htncolti. 

He was b. Taunton, Mass., lo Nov. 1751; d. Wareham, 
Mass., 1 1 Feb. 1838. He was a lieut. at the siege of Boston; 
raised a company at Taunton, with which he marched to 
Ticonderoga; com. lieut. in Bradford's (14th) reg. 31 Jan. 
1777; com. capt. 13 April, 1780; in Brooks's (7th) reg. in 
1783; was made a prisoner at Darby (now within the limits 
of Philadelphia) in 1777, and remained a prisoner about a 
year. He removed in 1799 to Wareham, where he resided 
until his death. 

His descent from Thomas ^ Lincoln, the miller, of Hingham, 
1635, removed to Taunton 1652, d. 1683-84, se. 80, was through 
Thomas^ \>. Eng. ; Thomas^ \i. 21 April, 1656, who m. 14 Nov. 
1689, Susannah Smith; Thomas,^ d. 11 March, 1761; Ichabod^ 
(his father), who d. 26 Sept. 1768. 

Rufus m. Lydia Sprague (b. Lebanon, Ct., 27 Feb. 1758, d. 20 
Oct. 1839), and had — 

Drusilla, m. Spencer Leonard of Wareham. 



344 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Bradford, m. Mercy Gibbs of Warehara. 
Prudence, m. James Field of Philadelphia. 
Gamaliel, m. Susan Russell of New Bedford. 
Minor S., m. (ist) Elizabeth Wheaton of Norton. 
Lydia, m. Nathan Ellis. 

RUFUS LINCOLN. 

Eldest son of Rufiis, whom he succ. in 1856; b. Taunton, 
Mass., 26 Sept. 1785 ; d. VVareham, Mass., 29 Jan. 1868. 

By his wife, Mercy Stevens of Fairhaven, he had — 
Lydia Sprague ; Seth ; Gilbert ; James Field. 

Joljn Htstaarll. 

Com. 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, i Feb. 1777; acciden- 
tally killed by a fall while a U. S. commissary of public 
stores at Albany, where his widow Ann was living some years 
later (1808). 

SMtlliam HocUtuoot). 

He was b. Wethersfield, Ct., 21 Jan. 1753; d. Glastonbury, 
Ct, 23 June, 1828; Yale Coll. 1774; tutor there, 1779-80; 
chaplain 1st Mass. brigade (Paterson's), 1783 ; pastor of First 
Church, Milford, 1784-96; and of Glastonbury, 1 797-1 804. 

His widow, Sarah (Sturges), d. Glastonbury, 31 Aug. 1834. They 
had — 

Ann, b. 5 Oct. 1785, m. Geo. Plumer, 7 May, 1807. 

Sarah, b. 4 April, 1787, m. Joseph Wright, 24 Nov. 1807. 

Samuel, b. 6 Jan. 1 789, merchant in Glastonbury. 

William, b. 9 Sept. 1792, d. 6 Dec. 1827. 

Priscilla, b. 21 Nov. 1796. 

Jfrcmialj ILor'a. 

Com. ensign in Nixon's (6th) reg. 15 June, 1781 ; d. 
Berwick, Me., ab. 1795, leaving a widow Patty (who d. 1803) 
and four children. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 345 

SAMUEL KIRKLAND LOTHROP, D.D., LL.D. 

He was the grandson of Rev. Samuel Kirkland, chaplain 
in the Continental army, and was adm. in 1868, under the 
rule of 1854. His father, John Hosmer Lothrop, a native 
of New Haven and a graduate of Yale College in 1787, m. 
in 1797, Jerusha, dau. of Rev. Samuel Kirkland (b. Norwich, 
Ct., I Dec. 1741, d. 28 Feb. 1808), for many years a mis- 
sionary to the Indians in Oneida County, N. Y. During 
the Revolutionary war Mr. Kirkland's mission, though not 
absolutely abandoned, was virtually discontinued^ as he was 
often absent and at a great distance from Oneida, serving as 
chaplain in the army or acting as an agent for the Conti- 
nental Congress in negotiations with the Indians. After the 
close of the war he removed his family again to Oneida, and 
devoted himself chiefly to his mission, though he still con- 
tinued to be an important and valuable medium of com- 
munication in negotiations between the Government and the 
Indians; and in 1792, acting under the authority of Gen. 
Knox, Secretary of War, he succeeded in conducting to 
Philadelphia a deputation of about forty Indian chiefs; and 
the friendly relations thus established through his influence 
between the Government and the Six Nations saved the 
frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania from being the 
scene of the savage warfare and barbarity which were soon 
after exhibited in the Northwest Territory. 

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop was b. Utica, N. Y., 13 Oct. 
1804; d. Boston, 12 June, 1886. He graduated at Harvard 
University in 1825 and at the Divinity School in 1828. He 
was ordained pastor of the Second Church, Dover, N. H., 18 
Feb. 1829, and remained there until 1834, when he accepted 
the pastorate of the church in Brattle Square, Boston, as the 
successor of Rev. Dr. Palfrey. His connection with this 
church continued until 1876, when with great reluctance 



346 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

the proprietors accepted his resignation and adopted a reso- 
lution in which they reiterated their sense of his fideHty as a 
Christian minister, their esteem and affection toward him 
as a friend, and their respect for him as a citizen. In a 
memoir written for the Mass. Historical Society, Rev. 
Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., says: — 

" As a pulpit orator Dr. Lothrop had all the external advantages 
that can give effect to uttered discourse, — a presence commanding 
and winning, a grace of attitude, movement, and gesture natural and 
unstudied, which art might have approached without attaining, and 
a voice of remarkable power and compass, flexible to the apt expres- 
sion of every varying mood of mind and feeling. . . . His sermons 
indicated a large and versatile intellectual ability, accomplished schol- 
arship, intimate knowledge of the Scriptures and of questions apper- 
taining to their origin, interpretation, and use, deep thought, and 
profound religious feeling. They satisfied alike strong thinkers and 
devout Christian believers. . . . Dr. Lothrop's professional reputa- 
tion was commensurate with his merits. Few ministers have been 
called to officiate on so numerous and so important public occasions, 
and his published occasional sermons in every instance fully justified 
the choice that rested on him. In his own denommation he held 
a foremost place, as was evinced by his election for several succes- 
sive years, and so long as he was willing to serve, as President of 
the American Unitarian Association. He was conservative in his 
theological opinions, yet at the same time progressive, and with a 
mind always open to views of truth that had a just claim on his 
consideration." 

Dr. Lothrop received the degree of D.D. from Harvard 
University in 1852, and that of LL.D. from Hamilton Col- 
lege in 1885. He held many positions of trust and honor 
in the charitable, philanthropic, and educational organiza- 
tions in the city and the State. The only books published 
by him are : " The Life of Samuel Kirkland, Missionary to 
the Indians," in Sparks's Am. Biog., and " The History of the 
Churcli in Brattle Square." He iniblishcd many sermons. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 347 

addresses, and other pamphlets, and was for a considerable 
time one of the editors of the " Christian Register." At the 
annual meeting of the Cincinnati Society, 5 July, 1886, the 
President paid a warm tribute of respect to the memory of 
Dr. Lothrop, and a series of resolutions, offered by Dr. B. A. 
Gould, was adopted by a rising vote. 

He m. (ist) 3 June, 1829, Mary Lyman Buckminster, d. 20 Jan. 
1859. They had : Thornton Kirkland; Eliza Lee, m. Charles D. 
Horaans, M.D. ; Joseph Stevens Buckminster, d. young ; Mary, 
m. Oliver W. Peabody of Boston ; Olivia Buckminster, m. Lewis 
William Tappan, Jr. ; Samuel Kirkland. 

He m. (2d) 22 Nov. 1869, Alice Lindsey, dau. of Rev. Abner 
and Catherine (Sedgwick) Webb. 

THORNTON KIRKLAND LOTHROP. 

Eldest son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1888; was 
b. Dover, N. H., 3 June, 1830; educated at the Boston Latin 
School and Harvard University ; Assistant District Attorney 
for the v. S. from April, 1861, to July, 1865 ; member of the 
General Court of Massachusetts, 1859 ; Trustee of the Boston 
Athenaeum, and of the Mass. General Hospital ; member of 
the Corporation of the Mass Institute of Technology; mem- 
ber of the Mass. State Board of Health, 1886-90, and a 
member of the Mass. Historical Society. He is a lawyer by 
profession, and resides in Boston. 

He m. 30 April, 1866, Anne Maria, dau. of Hon. Samuel Hooper. 
Children — 

Mary Buckminster, b. 15 July, 1867. 
Amy Peabody, b. 28 March, 1869. 
Willl^m Sturgis Hooper, b. 19 June, 1870. 
Thornton Kirkland, b. 23 Nov. 1872. 

JJamrs Hobrll. 

He was b. Boston, 9 July, 1758; d. St. Matthew's Pari.sh, 
S. C , 10 July, 1850. His grandfather was the celebrated 



34^ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

" Master" John Lovell. His father, James, was a member of 
the Continental Congress from Dec. 1776 to 1782, and was 
the first naval officer of customs for the port of Boston, 
being appointed by Washington, 3 Aug. 1789, and holding 
the office until 14 Oct. 18 14. 

James, the subject of this notice, was graduated from Har- 
vard University in 1776; com. ensign in H. Jackson's (i6th) 
reg. 25 May, 1777; adjutant, 10 April, 1778; cornet and 
adjutant of Lee's legion, 1780-83; was in various battles of 
the war, ending with that of Eutaw Springs, and served under 
Gen. Lincoln in South Carolina, where he subsequently set- 
tled as a planter. He left no children. He was Vice-Pre.SI- 
DENT of the Society, 1849-50. 

His emigrant ancestor was Capt. William Lovell of Dorchester, in 
1630, captain of a coasting vessel, from whom Lovell's Island in 
Boston harbor was named. J. Smith Lovell, younger brother of 
James, had numerous descendants. 

MANSFIELD LOVELL. 

Grand-nephew and eldest male descendant of Lieut. James, 
whom he succ. in 1854; was b. Washington, D. C, 20 Oct. 
1822. His father. Dr. Joseph, was surgeon-general of the 
U. S. army. Mansfield graduated at West Point Military 
Academy in 1842, and was com. 2d lieut. 4th U S. artillery. 
He served with his regiment during Gen. Taylor's campaign in 
Mexico in 1846, and was wounded' at the battle of Monterey. 
He was soon after made adjutant-general of Quitman's com- 
mand, accompanied it to Vera Cruz, and remained with it in 
that capacity until the capture of the city of Mexico, where 
he was wounded at the head of the storming party that car- 
ried the Belen Gate. For gallant conduct in the assault on 
Chapultepec and at the gates of the city of Mexico he was 
made brevet-captain, and soon after was assigned to the com- 
mand of a battery of light artillery, and retained that ctmi- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 349 

mand until 185 i, when he rejoined his regiment, which was 
stationed in New York harbor, where he remained until he 
resigned his commission in the U. S. army in 1854. He then 
went to reside in the city of New York, and in 1858 accepted 
the position of Deputy Street Commissioner. When the war 
broke out he resigned his position in the city government, 
and with his family went South, where his three brothers 
then resided. He was soon after appointed major-general 
in the Confederate army, and in October of that year was 
assigned to the command at New Orleans. 

On 24 April, 1862, the Federal fleet passed the forts of the 
Mississippi below New Orleans, and on the 25th the city was 
evacuated. On 2 May Gen. Lovell applied for a court of in- 
quiry, " as an act of justice to himself and officers, as well as 
to vindicate the truth of history." On 8 May Gen. R. E. 
Lee, then at Richmond in general charge of army operations, 
wrote to him : " It is believed that with the means of defence 
at your disposal you have done all in your power." And on 
the 24th : " It seems there was nothing left for you to do 
but to withdraw the troops. I think you may confidently 
rely upon the judgment of intelligent and reflecting men for 
the justification of your course, as soon as the facts as they 
actually existed shall be known." 

The court was not convened until April, 1863. The record 
of its proceedings was transmitted to the Confederate War 
Department on 13 July, but was not acted upon until the fol- 
lowing November. The opinion of the court was a vindi- 
cation of the commander of New Orleans. It stated that 
" Gen. Lovell displayed great energy and an untiring in- 
dustry in performing his duties. His conduct was marked 
by all 'the coolness and self-possession due to the circum- 
stances and his position, and he evidenced a high capacity 
for command and the clearest foresight in many of his meas- 
ures for the defence of New Orleans." On 5 Ma}', 1864, 



350 BIOCJRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Gen. Lovell wrote to the Secretary of War asking to be re- 
stored to the command from which he had been relieved ; 
but his request for a separate command was not granted. 

After the war he resided some time in Savannah, Ga., then 
returned to New York with his family, and practised his pro- 
fession as a civil engineer until his death. He was engaged 
as an assistant engineer under Gen. Newton in removing ob- 
structions to navigation in East River and at Hell Gate. 

He m. Emily M., dau. of Col. Joseph C. Plympton, a distinguished 
officer in the war of 1812, the Florida war, and the war with Mex- 
ico. They had two sons and a daughter. 

JOSEPH PLYArPTON LOVELL. 

Son of Gen. Mansfield, whom he succ. in 1885 ; was b. in 
the city of New York, 28 Sept. 1S51. He is engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits, and resides in the city of New York. 

Banicl Hunt. 

He was of Falmouth ; was a member of Brackett's Co. of 
minute-men in April, 1775; sergeant of the same company 
in Phinney's reg. 10 May, 1775 ; in Skillens's Co. of Francis's 
reg. 1776; com. 2d lieut. of Francis's reg. 3 Feb. 1777; capt. 
in Tupper's (nth) reg. 18 March, 1780; in Vose's (ist) reg. 
1783. He was living in Westbrook, Me., in 18 19, 2e. 69. 

rorncliu.s Unman. 

He was b. Northampton, 7 Jan. 1758; d. Fort Knox, Ind. 
Ter., 23 March, 1805. Com. ensign, i Jan. 1781 ; in Sprout's 
(2d) reg. in 1783; app. licut. 2d U. S. inf 4 March, 1791 ; 
capt. July 1792. 

Son of Capt. William and Jemima (Sheldon) Lyman. He m. 
Sarah Mason of Boston. They had one son. 



CINCINNATI UF MASSACHUSETTS. 35 I 

JAMES WILKINSON LYMAN. 

Only surviving son of Cornelius, whom he succ. in 1818 ; 
d. unm. 1 82 1. 

WILLIAM LYMAN. 

Son of Gen. William (who was the elder brother of Cor- 
nelius), and cousin of James W. Lyman, whom he succ. in 
1822. He m. a dau. of Kirk Boott of Lowell, and d. with- 
out issue. 

Hajiicl SWtCCas. 

Com. ensign in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. 10 May, 1782; in 
Vose's (ist) reg. 1783. 

iSHilUam ifEtl^rntirs. 

He was b. in Canton (formerly a part of Stoughton), Mass., 
1750; d. there 23 Aug. 1798. He was a private in Capt. 
James Endicott's Co. which marched on the Lexington alarm, 
19 April, 1775. On 27 April, 1775, he enlisted as a private 
in Capt. Wm. Bent's Co., Col. Greaton's reg., and served 
until Aug. On 4 March, 1776, he was a corporal in Capt. 
Endicott's Co., when it marched to Dorchester Heights; 
was afterward ensign and quartermaster in the 7th reg., and 
served through Sullivan's expedition against the Indians and 
their allies in northern New York in 1778-79; was at the 
Cherry Valley massacre (11 Nov. 1778) when Col. Alden 
was killed ; * com. lieut. and quartermaster 7th reg. (then 
Brooks's) 20 Oct. 1781. 

His father. John McKendry, b. 1716, <\. 24 June, 17S5, came 
from Antrim, Ireland; m. Mary Tolman. who was b. 1720, d. 24 

* He kept a journal from 25 Oct. 1777, to 3 Jan. 17S0, which contains matter 
of some historical value. It was printed in the Proceedings of the Mass. His- 
torical Society, 2d series, vol ii. pp. 442-478. 



352 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Dec. 17 74- Lieut. William m. Ruth Tucker of Milton, Mass. She 
was b. 1 761, d. 2 March, 1806. They had no children. 

GEORGE ALBERT McKENDRY. 

Great-grandson of Archibald, only brother of Lieut. Wil- 
liam, whom he succ. in 1859; grandson of Benjamin, and 
son of Albert; b. Dorchester, Mass., i Oct. 1836. He is 
a contractor and builder; served in the 4th Mass. heavy 
artillery from Aug. 1864 to July, 1865. Resides in West- 
borough, Mass. 

He m. I Oct. 1862, Anna Whiting, dau. of Daniel Bacon of Rox- 
bury, Mass. Children — 

George Irving, b. 2 June, 1863, d. 25 Aug. 1864. 

Addie Bacon, b. 18 March, 1866. 

Annie Whiting, b. 12 June, 1868. 

Helen Louise, b. 18 April, 1880. 

Ensign in Bigelow's (iSth) reg. at Rhode Island in 1778; 
com. lieut. in Bowman's Co., R. Putnam's (5th) reg. 28 June, 
1779; adj. same reg. 1780-83. He d. Westborough, Mass., 
22 Sept. 1 841, 3e. 86, leaving a widow, but no children. 

IBaiJiTJ fHason, Jr. 

He was com. 2d lieut. in Crane's artiller\-, 2 Feb. 1777, 
and was promoted to be ist lieut. 23 Oct. 1782. His father. 
Col. David Mason, founded in Boston the military company 
known as the "Train of Artillery," in 1763. Gen. Knox was 
afterward one of its commanders. Col. Mason had charge 
for some time of the arsenal in Springfield. Lieut. David, 
Jr., died without issue. 

JOHN BRYANT. 

He was the nephew of Lieut. David Mason, Jr., whom he 
succ. in 1802. He was b. Springfield, Mass., 24 Feb. 1780; 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 353 

d. Boston, 4 Feb. 1865. He was a well-known merchant of 
Boston, of the firm of Bryant & Sturgis. From 1846 to 
1865 he was ASSIST. Treas. of the SOCIETY. His father, 
Capt. John, was ordnance officer at the Springfield arsenal, 
having lost an arm early in the war of the Revolution. His 
uncle William was killed in one of the first engagements in 
that war. 

His descent from William ^ Bryan* who settled in Boston, 28 
July, 1679, ^- 7 Oct. 1697, was through yb^^," b. Boston, 25 March, 
1689, d. 1722 ;yc/i«,' b. Boston, 1718,01. 13 Aug. 1741, Lois, dau. of 
Jonathan and Mary (Lincoln) Brown, d. 1758 ; Q.'s.i^X. John'^ Bryant, 
his father, b. Boston, 19 May, 1742, d. Springfield, i May, 1816, m. 
10 Aug. 1779, Hannah, dau. of Col. David and Hannah (Symmes) 
Mason. 

John m. in Hanover, N. H., 13 Dec. 1807, Mary Cleveland, dau. 
of Rev. John Smith of Dartmouth College. 



HENRY BRYANT, M.D. 

He was the son of John, and was b. Boston, 12 May, 1820; 
d. Porto Rico, 2 Jan. 1867;! H. U. 1840. He was a physi- 
cian, and resided in Cohasset, Mass. 

He m. 6 Jan. 1848, Elizabeth Brimmer, dau. of William Davies 
Sohier. Children — 

Elizabeth, b. 12 Oct. 1848. 
Mary Cleveland, b. 8 April, 1850. 
John, b. 8 July, 1851. 
Henry, b. 10 Feb. 1857. 
WiLLLWvi Sohier, b. 15 May, 1861. 

* It will be observed that in the fourth generation the name was changed to 
Bryant. It is said that Capt. John's commission was made out, by mistake, in 
the name of Bryant, and he never took the trouble to correct it. 

t He was elected a member of the Society in 1865, but died before subscrib- 
ing the declaration in the manner required by the rules. At the annual meeting 
4 July, 1S90, it was ordered that his name be placed on the roll. 



354 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

JOHN BRYANT, M.D. 

Son of Henry, whom he succ. in 1890, was b. Cohasset, 
Mass., 8 July, 1851; H. U. 1873. He is a physician, and 
resides in Cohasset. 

He m. 15 Oct. 1878, Charlotte, dau. of John Hull Olmsted. 
Children — 

John, b. 29 Sept. 1880. 

Owen, b. 14 Feb. 1882. 

Edward Sohier, b. 7 Aug. 1883. 

He was b. Minterburn, Tyrone County, Ireland, 27 April, 
1733, in which year Hugh his father, who was a Calvinist, 
emigrated to New England, and settled on a farm in Bedford, 
where he d. in 1759. The son learned the art of surveying, 
which he afterward practised in addition to his occupation as 
a farmer. He served five campaigns in the war of 1757-63 ; 
was taken at Fort Edward, barely escaping with his life, and 
was com. ensign in Ruggles's reg. 31 March, 1759. In 1773 
he settled in Charlemont, now Heath, Mass. ; was appointed 
early in 1775 lieut. of a company of minute-men, with which 
he marched to Cambridge on hearing of the Lexington battle, 
and joining Prescott's reg. was com. capt. 10 May, 1775. At 
Bunker Hill a ball passed through his right shoulder. He 
served in Prescott's reg. near New York, afterward in Bailey's 
(2d), of which he was com. major, 7 July, 1777; com. lieut. - 
col. of M. Jackson's (8th) reg. i Aug. 1782. He was present 
at the siege of Boston, the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Sara- 
toga, and Monmouth, and in the successful attack in Jan. 
1 78 1, on De Lancey's Loyalists at Morrisania. He was Town 
Clerk of Heath in 1791-99; Justice of the Peace in Hamp- 
shire County, 1785-99; and d. on a return voyage from the 
West Indies, 14 Oct. 1799. He m. in 1759, Bridget Munroe 
of Lexington, and had seven children. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 355 

HUGH MAXWELL. 

Eldest son of Col. Hugh, whom he succ. in 1826; b. 
Bedford, Mass., 13 March, 1770; d. Heath, Mass., 23 Feb. 
1849. 

WILLIAM MUNROE MAXWELL. 

Only hving son of Hugh, whom he succ. in 1872 ; b. Heath, 
Mass., 22 May, 1807; d. there 13 Feb. 1888. Com. ensign 
Rifle Co. 4th reg. M. V. M. 28 April, 1837; com. lieut. same 
regiment, 21 Aug. 1S38. He was a farmer, and resided in 
Heath. 

He m. I Oct. 1834, Eunice Rugg of Heath. They had — 

Hugh, b. 5 June, 1836. 

Orsamus, b. 18 July, 1837. 

Frederick H., b. 15 Feb. 1841. 

George, b. 5 Dec. 1842. 

David, b. 29 April, 1844. 

OLrvE E., b. 5 April, 1846. 

Jotjn ptaijnarU. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 14 May, 1753; d. Lan- 
caster, Mass., 21 Jan. 1823. Acting ensign in Nixon's reg. 
at the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was wounded, and 
being unable to walk was borne to Cambridge by his brother, 
Hon. Needham Maynard. He was com. lieut. in Greaton's 
(3d) reg. II Nov. 1777; afterward quartermaster. He was 
made prisoner by the British at White Plains, 3 Feb. 1780. 
After the war he lived in Lancaster. 

His descent iromjohn^ Maynard, of -Sudbury, d. 10 Dec. 1672, 
who m. Mary Axdell in 1646, was through Zachary^ b. 7 June, 1647, 
d. 1724, who m. in 1678 Hannah Coolidge ; Jonathan^ b. 8 April, 
1685, removed to Framingham, d. 1760, who m. 10 Dec. 1714, 
Mehetable Needom ; y<?jc/^ * (his father), b. 20 Nov. 1725, d. 
3 Aug. 1 769, who m. 29 May, 1 746, Abigail Jennings. 

John m. Martha Wilder of Lancaster. • 



556 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



Jfonatljan ^[Hasnart. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 22 May, 1752; d. there 
17 July, 183s ; H. U. 1775. Com. lieut. in Nixon's reg. and 
present at the battle of Bunker Hill; com. capt. 25 Jan. 
1 78 1, in Brooks's (7th) reg.; taken prisoner, and exchanged 
in Dec. 1780; served through the war. He was a Trustee of 
Framingham Academy, Selectman, Town Clerk, and Repre- 
sentative of the town in 1800 and 1805, and afterward a State 
Senator, enjoying in a high degree the esteem and confidence 
of his fellow-townsmen. 

Grandson of Jonathan,^ and Mehetable (Needom) Ma\Tiard, and 
son oi Jotiaihan* and Martha (Gleason) Maynard. He m. 30 May, 
1784, Lois Eaton, and had no issue. 



asailUant JHagnactJ. 

Brother of Jonathan Maynard ; b. Framingham, 29 March, 
1745 ; d. in South Carolina, where he went as a teacher about 
1788. Com. lieut. in Gardner's (afterward Nixon's) reg. 
May, 1775 ; received at Bunker Hill a bullet in the hip, 
which he bore with him to his grave, and was in June, 1779, 
transferred as a captain to the invalid regiment. He served 
six years as Town Olerk of Framingham. 

By his wife Mary Pepper, who d. 12 March, 1780, he had — 

John. 

Martha, b. 8 May, 1768, m. i Jan. 1798, Isaac Damon of East 

Sudbury. 
Mary, b. 2 June, i 770, m. Eph. Carter of Lancaster, d. June, 1827. 
Benjamin, b. 4 April, 1772, d. unm. in Demerara, ab. 1810. 
William, b. ii March, 1774, m. 12 March, 1797, Eunice Dench, 

d. 15 Nov. 1804. 
Thomas, b. 25 Dec. 1775, d. unm. in Demerara, ab. 1808. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 357 

JOHN MAYNARD. 

Eldest son of Capt. William, whom he succ. in 1804; 
b. Framingham, Mass., 3 Oct. 1766; d. Scarborough, Me., 
June, 1818. He m. Mary Durant at Santa Cruz. 

CORNELIUS DURANT MAYNARD. 

» Eldest son of John, whom he succ. in 1839; d. Portland, 
Me., in March, 1855. 

Samcs means. 

He was a sergt. in Williams's Co. of Phinney's reg at the 
siege of Boston; was com. ensign, 3 Aug. 1776; 2d lieut. in 
Brewer's reg. in 1777; com. capt. in Sprout's (i2th) reg. 5 
July, 1779; in 2d reg. in 1783. He d. Westbrook, Me., in 
1832, leaving two daughters, one of whom, SoPHIA, m. Samuel 
Mason, and d. 1837, leaving ten children. 

JAMES MEANS MASON. 
Eldest grandson of Capt. James Means, whom he succ. in 
1846; d. in Boston, April, 1866. 

JAMES MEANS MASON. 

Eldest son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1889; was 
b. Portland, Me., 16 June, 1849. He is engaged in the drug 
business, and resides in Portland. 

He m. 6 Feb. 1875, Nettie, dau. of Josiah Brewer. They have — 
James Fred, b. 25 June, 1879. 

Samuel IWcllisl). 

Com. lieut. in Greaton's (3d) reg. 16 Sept. 1778 ; afterward 
paymaster; d. Roxbury, Mass., in Sept. 1797, se. 42, leaving 
a widow, Elizabeth, who d. in Roxbury in 1804, and a dau. 
Clarinda. 



358 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Jcrfmiai) IWiUtr. 

He was b. Richmond, Berkshire County, Mass., 1749; d. 
there 3 Aug. 1785. Sergt. in D. Noble's Co. in Paterson's 
reg. at the siege of Boston in 1775 ; com. ensign and heut. in 
1776; capt. and paymaster in Vose's (ist) reg. i Jan. 1777, 
and severely wounded at Monmouth, 28 June, 1778, and 
"never well afterward." His wife d. in Nov. 1784. 

His only dau. Abby, m. Benj. Rossiter, who d. in New York in 
18 15, and had Q. H. Rossiter, of Windham Centre, N. Y., b. Rich- 
mond, Mass., 31 Jan. 1801. She afterward m. Dr. Saxton of Fall 
River, Mass., and d. Aug. 1S67, ae. 88. 

Joscplj JWillcr. 

Com. 2d lieut. in Smith's (13th) reg. 30 May, 1778; 1st 
lieut. and adj. 25 May, 1780; in Tupper's (6th) reg. in 1783. 

Soljit JWiUs. 

Of Boston; d. unm. at Greenville, O., 8 July, 1796. En- 
sign in Whitcomb's reg. at the siege of Boston; com. lieut. 
in Paterson's reg. 26 March, 1777; capt. in Vose's (ist) reg. 

16 April, 1779, in which he served to the end of the war; 
app. capt. 2d U. S. inf. 4 March, 1791 ; major 2d sub. legion, 

17 Feb. 1793; adj. and inspector of the army, 13 May, 
1794; and distinguished in Wayne's victory over the Miami 
Indians, 20 Aug. 1794. 

SUtlUam i«iHs. 

Of Westminster, Mass.; emigrated to Ohio in 1789, and 
d. there before 1812. Com. ensign in Bradford's (14th) reg. 
31 Jan. 1777; lieut. 1778; com. capt. in Brooks's (7th) reg. 
II May, 1781 ; remained in the service till the end of the war. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 359 



iScnjamtn Jttoocrs. 

He was b. Haverhill, Mass., i April, 1758; d. Plattsburg, 
N. Y., 20 Feb. 1838. In 1776 he entered the army as a vol- 
unteer, and served at Ticonderoga ; in the following winter 
was com. ensign in Hazen's reg., called " Congress's Own ; " 
and being soon afterward promoted to lieut. and adj., served 
in that capacity to the close of the war. He saw much active 
service, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne at 
Saratoga, and at the capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 
At the close of the war he settled in Plattsburg, N. Y., then 
a wilderness; was the first sheriff of the county, which he 
represented in the State Assembly four terms; also served 
four terms in the Senate of New York, and was President pro 
tcm. of that body. He became an officer in the militia, and 
finally rose to the rank of major-general, in which capacity 
he was in the U. S. service in 1812 ; and commanded the mili- 
tia at the battle of Plattsburg, 11 Sept. 1814, with such credit 
as to merit the commendation of the State Legislature and 
the presentation of a sword. For thirty-eight years he was 
Treasurer of the county, and was President of the Clinton 
County Bible Society, and of the County Temperance 
Society. 

His descent from Edward^ ATooers, b. Devonshire County, Eng- 
land, 1614, who came to Boston in ship " Confidence " from .Southamp- 
ton in 1638, was Xhxow^ Jonathan^ b. in Newbury, 23 April, 1646 ; 
Jonathan^ b. in Newbury, (3 or 12) April, 1694, m. Mary Poor, 
b. 12 Aug. 1692; Benjamin,'^ b. in Newburyport, Mass., 20 April, 
1724 (or 1725), d. Haverhill, Mass., 25 Sept. 1799, m. Abigail Hazen, 
dau. of Moses Hazen and Abigail White. 

Benjamin m. 24 April, 1791, Hannah Piatt, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel 
Piatt and Phebe Smith. 



360 BIOGRArmCAL NOTICES OF THE 

JOHN W. MOORE. 

Grandson of Gen. Benjamin Mooers, whom he succ. in 
1878; was b. Plattsburg, N. Y., 24 May, 1832. At the age 
of twenty-one he entered tlte navy as 3d assist, engineer, 
and was assigned to duty in the office of the engineer-in- 
chief in the Navy Department at Washington. He was 
soon transferred to the steam-frigate " Saranac," and served 
in the Mediterranean squadron, 1853-56. On 27 June, 
1855, he was promoted to 2d assist, engineer. In 1857 he 
served on the steam-frigate " Niagara " in the Atlantic 
Cable Expedition. On 21 July, 1858, he was promoted to 
1st assist, engineer; 1858-60 he served on the steam-frigates 
" Colorado " and " Roanoke " of the Home squadron ; 
1860-61 on the steam sloop-of-war " Richmond " of the 
Mediterranean squadron. 

He was promoted to chief engineer, 5 Aug. 1861, and 
during 1861-63 he served in the West Gulf blockading 
squadron. During this time he participated in the engage- 
ments of the passes of the Mississippi River with the river 
batteries and ram "Manassas," 12 Oct., and the attack on 
the river defences at Pensacola, 22 Nov. 1861. He was 
present at the attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 
April ; capture of New Orleans, 25 April ; passage of Vicks- 
burg batteries, 27 June; the passage of the same batteries 
and the fight with the rebel ram "Arkansas," 15 July, 1862. 
He took part in the battle at Port Hudson, 15 March, and 
the capture of that place, 8 July, 1863. He was the origi- 
nator of the plan adopted by the vessels composing Far- 
ragut's fleet, for protecting the sides of the ships with their 
chain cable, and also of covering their ships with a paint com- 
posed of the mud of the Mississippi River, to obscure them. 

On the return north of the " Richmond," for repairs, in 
August, 1863. he was detached and assigned to dut\- in New 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 36 1 

York, under Admiral Gregory, as member of the Board of 
Examiners of ironclads, and afterward in Boston to super- 
intend government works building at the Atlantic, and 
other works in that vicinity. He was ordered to the frigate 
"Franklin," 15 May, 1867, as fleet engineer on the staff of 
Admiral Farragut. He was detached, 21 Dec. 1868, and 
ordered to board duty at New York Navy Yard, and later 
to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. He was a member 
of the board, of which Admiral Goldsborough was presi- 
dent, to examine into the condition of all vessels at different 
navy yards. After completing that service he returned to 
duty at the Kittery Navy Yard. He was ordered to the 
" Hartford " as fleet engineer of the Asiatic squadron, 3 
Sept. 1872, where he remained until he was detached, 19 
Dec. 1875, and ordered to duty as chief engineer of the 
Washington Navy Yard, where he remained during 1876-79. 
He was a member of the Board of Inspection, under Admiral 
Porter, from 1879 till 1882, when he was again ordered to 
duty as fleet engineer on the Pacific station, where he re- 
mained during 1882-85. In Feb. 1887, he was ordered to 
experimental duty at New York, and later to duty as chief 
engineer of that yard. Detached from there, he was or- 
dered to the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, as chief 
engineer, and was on duty there in 1890. 

His descent irom Joseph'^ Moore of Turkey Hills, Ct., d. 1745, 

and Owen, was through Nodiah^ who m. Anna Loomis, dau. 

of Samuel Loomis and Catharine Saxton ; Judge Pliny, ^ b. Sheffield, 
Mass., 14 April, 1759, d. Champlain, N. Y., 18 Aug. 1822, who 
m. 22 Jan. 1787, Martha Corbin, dau. of Capt. John Corbin and 
Abigail Cabot ; Coi. Jimasa C.,* b. Champlain, N. Y., 3 April, 1801, 
d. Plattsburg, N. ¥., 20 Jan. 1865, who m. 18 Jan. 1826, Charlotte 
Elizabeth Mooers, dau of Major-Gen. Benjamin Mooers. 

John W. m. 19 Nov. 1863, Emily, dau. of Capt. Horace B. Sawyer, 
U. S. N. (member of the Mass. Cincinnati). They have — 



362 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Emily Louisa Sawter, b. Brookline, Mass., 19 Sept. 1864. 
Clarence Sanvter, b. Herkimer, N. Y., 4 Aug. 1866. 
Minnie Saw\'er, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 Dec. 1868. 
Elsie Sawter, b. Portsmouth, N. H., 28 March, 1871. 
Emily Savwer, b. Herkimer, N. Y., i Aug. 1877. 

ffijaciliam JHoor. 

He was com. 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, 9 Sept. 1778, and 
served to the end of the war. Re-entering the service, he 
was com. lieut. i May, 1787, and lieut. of artillery, 29 Sept. 
1789. He d. in 1791 at the river St. Mary's, Ga., lea\ing no 
descendants. 

WILLIAM FREDERICK JONES. 

Great-grand-nephew of Lieut. Moor, whom he succ. in 
1884; was b. Boston, 2 Dec. 1841. He was educated at the 
Dorchester public schools and at Harvard University. Served 
in the war of the Rebellion as a private and non-commissioned 
officer in the 44th reg. Mass. vols., from Aug. 1862, to June, 
1863. Assist. Treas. of the Society since 1888. Resides 
in Dorchester. 

Thos. Jones, his grandfather, was the son of Lieut. Moor's 
eldest sister, and m. Sarah Whitcomb, dau. of Col. Asa Whit- 
comb. A short sketch of Col. Whitcomb may be of interest 
in this connection. He was b. Lancaster, Mass., in 1820, and 
was a descendant of John Whitcomb, who came from Dor- 
chester, Eng., to Dorchester, Mass., in 1633 or 1635. He 
served in the French and Indian war between 1748 and 
1758 ; was Representative in the General Court for a number 
of years afterward ; was colonel of the 26th Mass. reg. which 
reported for dut}' at Cambridge in May,*'T775 ; paymaster- 
general of the army during the siege of Boston ; commanded 
one of the regiments in garrison there after the British evacu- 
ated tlic town, and commanded the detachment which fortified 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 363 

Long Island on the night of June 13, 1776. In the reorgan- 
ization and consolidation of the army besieging Boston, 
which entailed the discharge of many officers, Col.Whitcomb 
was dropped on account of his age ; but his men resented it, 
and declared they would not re-enlist. He told them that he 
did not doubt there were good reasons for the action taken ; 
that he was satisfied with it ; that it was not for them to com- 
plain, and that he would enlist as a private. When Washing- 
ton heard of it he reinstated the Colonel, and in a general 
order commended his unselfish and patriotic conduct. Col. 
Whitcomb retired from the army in 1777, and died at Prince- 
ton, Mass., in 1804. 

Thomas Jefferson Jones, father of William Frederick, was 
b. Princeton, 1804, and d. in Dorchester, in 1881. He m. 
Eliza Wier of Halifax, N. S., the descendant of a Tory family 
that emigrated from Newport, R. I., to Nova Scotia, and 
founded the town of Newport there. 

^latUtam it«oore. 

Of Oxford, Mass.; d. there 6 Aug. 1819; H. U. 1767. 
Ensign in Ebenezer Francis's reg. in i 'j']G ; capt.-lieut. in 
Shepard's (4th) reg. in Sullivan's R. I. campaign in 1778; 
com. capt. 15 June, 1779, and served through the war. 

iSfnj'amin JHorflan. 

Com. surgeon's mate in Vose's (ist) reg. 21 March, 1782; 
discharged, 3 Oct. 1783. His widow, who lived at Benning- 
ton Centre, Vt., applied for a government pension in 1859. 

^mos fWorriU. 

Of Epsom, N. H. ; d. St. Albans, Vt., in Jan. 1810, ae. ^6. 
1st. lieut. of Dearborn's Co. in Stark's reg. at Bunker Hill; 
com. capt. 1st N. H. reg. 8 Nov. 1776; major, 24 March, 
1780-83. 



364 BUlGRArillCAL NOTICES OF THE 

Silas i«oitou. 

He was the son of Silas and Martha IMorton of Pl}nioiith ; 
b. 21 July, 1752; d. Pembroke, Mass., 25 March, 1840. 
Entering a I'lynioiith company of minute-men early in 1775, 
he was com. lieut. in Bailey's (2d) reg. i Jan. 1777, and left 
the army a brevet-capt. 30 Oct. 1783. Present at the siege 
of Boston, surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, surrender of 
Cornwallis at Yorktown, storming of Stony Point, and at 
West Point at the time of Arnold's treason. He was often 
confidentially employed as bearer of despatches, and at the 
close of the contest, in recognition of his merit, was the re- 
cipient of a sword from Congress, which is now in the pos- 
session of the famil}'. 

He m. 5 Jan. 1 7()2. Mli/abeth. dau. of Robert Foster of Kingston, 
and had two sons and six daughters. 

EDWARD STRONG MOSELEY. 

He was b. Newburyport, Mass., 22 June, 18 13, and was 
educated at the Newbur}-port Academy, the Franklin Acad- 
emy, Andover, and Yale College. After leaving college he 
entered the counting-room of B. A. Gould, in Boston. Upon 
the completion of his mercantile ethication he made succes- 
sive voyages as supercargo to Batavia and Canton, Madras 
and Calcutta, and on his final return became associated with 
Mr. Gould in the East India trade, building many ships for 
the business. He has been President of the Newbur)-port 
Institution for Savings since 1861 ; President of the Me- 
chanicks' National Bank ; for many years chairman of the 
School Committee, and for more than a quarter of a century 
Trustee of Dummer Academy. He is a Director in the 
Bunker Hill Association; Vice-President of the Mass. Bible 
Socict\-, and President of many local societies. In 1 870 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 365 

Yale College conferred upon him the honorary degree of 
Master of Arts. He was admitted a member of the CIN- 
CINNATI SOCIKTV in 1867, under the rule of 1854. 

His grandfather, Ebcnezer, from whom he derived the 
right of admission, was b. in Windham, Ct., grad. at Yale, 1763, 
and in 1767 was ordained missionary of the Society for prop- 
agating the Gospel in New England. In 1775 he was com. 
capt. in the 3d Ct. reg.(Col. Israel Putnam's), having command 
of a company of si.xty able-bodied men, whom he had enlisted, 
and marched to Bunker Hill, where they did good service. 
Their position was at the breast-work and rail fence, where a 
stout resistance was made. 

His brother Samuel, corporal in Knowlton's Co. of the 
same regiment, was there killed. Ebenczer was afterward 
authorized to raise 1,092 men to join the army at Providence, 
and was appointed one of the officers. A historian of the 
times says : " The troops for the defence of Rhode Island 
were all raised in Windham and New London Counties; and 
Ebenezer Moseley, a patriotic man of position and influence, 
was just the person for the service." He was subsequently 
colonel of the 5th Ct. reg., and was for many years Repre- 
sentative to the Legislature. His wife was Martha Strong, 
sister of Gov. Caleb Strong of Massachusetts. He d. in 1825. 

The family .and its connections are represented to have 
been eminently patriotic. His brother-in-law was Gen. Bel- 
lows of Walpolc, N. H., an active officer in the Revolution. 
Another brother-in-law was Samuel Hunt, who held in 1759 
a royal commission, but during the Revolutionary war he was 
commissary for the troops under Gen. Stark; still another 
brother-in-law was Hon. Samuel Hinckley, a descendant of 
Gov. Hinckley, who was wounded at the battle of White 
Plains. Col. Josiah Dunham was his nephew, who received 
direct from Washington the commission of captain, which 
hung in his parlor until his death. 



366 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Hon. Ebenezer, his son, and the father of Edward S., was 
b. 21 Nov. 1781 ; grad. at Yale Coll. in 1802 and settled in 
the practice of law in Newburyport. He was col. of the 6th 
reg. in 1813 and 1814; Representative, Senator, and Master 
in Chancery; President of the Essex Agricultural Society, 
in the year 1832 presidential elector, and filled many posi- 
tions of public trust and honor. He d. in 1854. 

The descent of Edward S. is from John^ who came over in 1629- 
30 from Lancashire, settled in Dorchester, and d. in 1661. His 
son Thomas''- m. 28 Oct. 1658, Mary, dau. of Thomas Lawrence 
of Hingham. His son Ebenezer^ b. 4 Sept. 1673, d. in Dorchester, 
19 Sept. 1740, m. Hannah Weeks; was one of the Selectmen and 
Town Treasurer of Dorchester. Sauiiiel* his son, b. 15 .\ug. 1 708, d. 
26 July, I 791, grad. at Harvard, 1729, and was for a time chaplain 
of the Royal Governor ; ordained pastor of the Second Church in 
Windham, 15 May, i;/34, m. 4 July, 1734, Bethiah, dau. of Joseph 
Otis, Esq., described by the " Genealogical Register " as " of illustri- 
ous ancestry ; " he d. in the 83d year of his age and 5 7th of his 
ministry. In the Collections of the Mass. Historical Society he is 
spoken of as " an accomplished gentieman and scholar." Col. Eben- 
ezcr^ his son, b. 19 Feb. 1741, d. 20 March, 1825, grad. at Yale, 
1763, the third on the list of graduates; m. 14 Sept. 1773, Martha, 
sister of Gov. Strong. Y{.on. Ebenezer^ his son, b. 1781, grad. at 
Yale, 1802, m. 17 June, 1810, Mary Ann, dau. of Edward Oxnard, 
H. U. 1767, and a direct descendant of John Fox of the "Book of 
Martyrs" (London, 1563) ; d. 1854. Edward S.^ his son, m. 5 
Feb. 1839, Charlotte Augusta, dau. of Rev. George T. Chapman, 
D.D., granddaughter of Ebenezer Buck, who served during the war 
as capt. under Gen. Wordsworth. The children of Edward S. now 
living are — 

Edward A., Secretiry of the Interstate Commission, m. Catharine 
M. Prescott, and has one daughter. 

Charles William. 

Mary Alice, m. Abiel I. Abbot, and has children. 

Frederick Strong, m. Alice Poore, deceased, leaving one son. 

Charlotte Augu.sta. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 367 

Of Watertown, Mass. ; was a private in A. Crafts's Co. of 
Bond's reg. in 1775 ; com. lieut. and quartermaster in Sprout's 
(i2th) reg. I Jan. 1777; 1st lieut. 5 Sept. 1780 ; in 2d reg. in 
1783; pensioner, living in Vermont in 1820; m. 11 April, 
1786, Martha Brewer of Waltham, who was living in 1847. 

Watljaniel Wason. 

He was of Berwick, Me.; enlisted in 1775 as orderly ser- 
geant of a company raised in South Berwick ; was com. lieut. 
in Vose's (ist) reg. i Aug. 1779; quartermaster, i Feb. 1782; 
and was brevet-capt. at the close of the war. A curiously 
engraved powder-horn, which he had at Ticonderoga, Nov. 
1776, when in the i8th (Phinney's) reg., is preserved. He d. 
in South Berwick, 27 July, 1818, ae. 72. His wife, Betsey 
Manning, d. in June, 1837. They had — 

Sabina, who m. Moses Grant, and had six sons and one daughter. 

Lucius QuiNTius CiNciNNATUs, b. 4 June, 1791, d. 1872, was 
elected a member of the Society in 1869, but failed to qualify ; 
he m. 7 July, 1825, Sarah W., dau. of Richard Garland, a Rev- 
olutionary soldier of Bardett, N. H. (b. 28 April, 1794). 

Hope, m. Hannah Hubbard, and had three daughters and one son. 

fl^tnvs UCcIson. 

Ensign and quartermaster in Vose's (1st) reg.; com. lieut. 
15 March, 1782; in 3d reg. 1783. 

Ejra WriDfjall. 

He was b. in Connecticut in 1733; d. Salem, Mass., 7 April, 
1798. He removed in early life to Saugus, Mass.; was com. 
by Gov. Pownall, 20 Feb. 1760, an ensign in Ruggles's (ist) 
battalion serving in the French war ; was capt. of a Lynn 



368 BIOGRArHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Co. in May, 1775; in Mansfield's rcg. and in Hutchinson's 
reg. at the siege of Boston and invasion of Canada; major 
in 1776; lieut.-col. of Putnam's (Sth) reg. 17 May, 1777; 
present at Burgoyne's surrender, and served with honor 
throughout the war. He settled in Salem in 1784; in 1791 
was app. Collector U. S. Revenue for a portion of Essex 
County. An obituary notice of Col. Ncwhall states that " he 
served his country with fidelity and honor; and in civil and 
domestic life the character of an honest man, faithful friend, 
tender husband, and kind parent was most conspicuous 
in him." 

He m. (ist) Sarah Fuller of Lynn; (2d) Eliza Breed, widow of 
Albert Gray, and had — 
Thomas. 
Samuel. 
Gilbert, b. 10 Oct. 1 775, d. 15 Oct. 1863, who followed his father's 

business, and kept a livery-stable. 
Joseph, a tinsmith, who d. uiini. 

THOMAS NEWHALL. 

Eldest son of Col. Ezra, whom he succ. in 1802; b. Sau- 
gus, Mass., 1754; d. Salem, i Jan. 1832. He m. 30 Dec, 
1783, Mehitable Cheever (b. 23 July, 1762, d. 12 Jan. 1830), 
and had — 

Thomas, b. 12 Oct. 1784, lost at sea, Oct. 181 1. 

Sally, b. 7 July, 1787, d. 3 Dec. 17S7. 

Lyman, b. 3 Feb. 1790, d. in infancy. 

Samuel, b. 3 May, 1792, lost at sea, Oct. 181 1. 

Dudley S., b. 4 July, 1794, d. Illinois, 7 Dec. 1842. 

Sarah, b. 31 Jan. 1797, m. 8 May, 1820, Wm. S. Wait, d. Illinois, 

14 Sept. 1865. 
Charlotte, b. 2 Oct. 1799, d. 14 Oct. 1801. 
Edward A. H., b. 5 Dec. 1802. 
Benjamin L., grandson of Ezra, applied for admission in 1872. 



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Samuel jJCctoman. 

He entered the Boston Latin School in 1766; served two 
years and seven months in Crafts's artihery reg. as a lieut., 
afterward in the navy, under Capt. S. Nicholson, until 1783, 
and was twice a prisoner; app. lieut. 2d U. S. inf. 4 March, 
1791; capt., 7 Nov. 1791, but had been killed, 4 Nov. 1791, 
in St. Clair's battle with the Miami Indians. 

HENRY NEWMAN. 

Eldest brother of Samuel, whom he succ. in 1S02; b. 
Boston, 1756; d. 28 Nov. 1811; Boston Latin School, 1764. 
He m. Deborah, dau. of Lieut. -Gov. Thomas Cashing, who 
d. 9 May, 1845, a;. 82. 

HENRY NEWMAN. 

Eldest son of Henry, whom he succ. in 1813; d. Boston, 
28 July, 1861, ze. •/?>. William H. H. Newman, grand-nephew 
of Lieut. Samuel, was elected in 1888 as the successor of 
Henry. 

Santurl Xicljolsou. 

He was b. Chestertown, eastern shore of Maryland, 1743; 
d. senior officer of the navy, at Charlestown, Mass., 29 Dec. 
18 II. He was a heut. under Paul Jones in the action be- 
tween the "Bon Homme Richard" and "Serapis; " was 
made a capt. 17 Sept. 1779, and early in 1782 commanded 
the " Deane " of 32 guns, in which he cruised successfully, 
taking among other prizes three sloops of war, with an ag- 
gregate of 44 guns. On the reorganization of the navy 
he was com. capt. 10 June, 1794, and was the first com- 
mander of the frigate " Constitution," which was built and 
launched under his supervision. In April, 1806, upon the 
second reorganization of the navy, he was appointed senior 

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captain. He was instrumental in laying out and building up 
the Navy Yard in Charlestown, Mass., commanding there for 
many years. 

He.m. at Ten Hills Farm, 9 Feb. 1780, Mary Dowse, a niece of 
Sir John Temple. She d. 16 April, 1815, ae. 57. They had six sons 
and four daughters. 

JAMES WILLIA.M AUGUSTUS NICHOLSON. 

Son of Nathaniel Dowse (i 792-1 822), an officer of the 
U. S. navy, who served in the war of 18 12, and grandson 
of Capt. Samuel, whom he succ. in 1875; was b. Ded- 
ham, Mass., 10 March, 1821 ; d. city of New York, 28 Oct. 
1887. He was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. navy 
in 1838, and was acting master in the Mexican war. In 
1853-55 he was lieutenant of the sloop " Vandalia," con- 
nected with the Japanese expedition under Commodore 
Matthew C. Perry. At the beginning of the war he com- 
manded the " Isaac Smith " in the Port Royal expedition, 
and was commended by Admiral Dupont for coolness and 
courage. In the winter of 1861-62 he was on service in 
Florida, and in the spring of 1862 had command at St. 
Augustine. In July, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of 
commander, and in 1862-63 he was ordnance officer on the 
New York station. In 1863-64 he commanded the "Sham- 
rock " in the South Atlantic blockading squadron before 
Charleston. At the battle of Mobile Bay he commanded 
the ironclad " Manhattan," and took a prominent part in 
the capture of the Confederate ram " Tennessee." He after- 
ward bombarded and reduced Fort Powell and Fort Mor- 
gan. After the war he had command of the " Mohongo " 
in the Pacific squadron, and in July, 1866, was promoted to 
be captain. In 1871-72 he commanded the flagship " Lan- 
caster " of the squadron at Brazil. In 1873 he was pro- 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 37 1 

Yiwd, New York, from Sept. 1876,10 May, 18S0. In Sept. 
1880, he was promoted to be rear-admiral, and in the follow- 
ing year he took command of the fleet on the European 
station. He received the commendation of the Navy Depart- 
ment and the thanks of the governments of England, the 
Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, and Egypt for 
his aid in restoring order and preserving from destruction 
by fire the city of Alexandria, Egypt, after its bombardment 
by a British fleet in July, 1882. He was placed on the 
retired list, 10 March, 1883. 

It is an interesting fact that, since 1755, eighteen members 
of the Nicholson family have been in the naval service of the 
country. 

Admiral Nicholson's son, William Henry Drake Nichol- 
son, b. city of New York, 2 Jan. 1847, was elected a member 
of the Society in 1888. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 7 May, 1736; d. on the 
passage from Boston to Portland, 12 Aug. 1800. Chris- 
topher, his father, came to Framingham from the South, 
and m. about 1726 Mary Sever. John, his elder brother, 
b. II March, 1727, was a soldier at the capture of Louis- 
burg, in 1745 ; a captain at the battle of Lake George, 
8 July, 1758; led a company of minute-men from Sudbury 
in the battle of Lexington ; commanded a regiment at Bun- 
ker Hill, and was severely wounded; com. brig.-gen. 9 Aug. 
1776, and commanded the ist Mass. brigade at Stillwater, 
where a cannon-ball passed so near his head as to impair 
permanently the sight of one eye and the hearing of one 
ear. In poor health, he resigned his com. 12 Sept. 1780; 
removed to Middlebury, Vt., about 1803, and d. there 24 
March, 181 5. Col. Thomas Nixon was an ensign in the 
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372 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

at the battle of Lexington in 1775 ; lieut.-col. of his brother's 
(Col. John Nixon's) reg. at the siege of Boston ; col. of the 
6th continental reg. from 9 Aug. 1776, to i Jan. 1781 ; dis- 
tinguished in the battles preceding Burgoyne's surrender 
in Oct. 1777, and served to the close of the war with bravery 
and efficiency. He removed to Southborough about 1784. 

By his wife, Bethia Stearns, he had — 

Cate, b. 31 July, 1758, m. William Stowell of Worcester, moved to 

Paris, Me., and d. 1842. 
Thomas. 

Asa, b. 17 Aug. 1767, d. i Dec. 1771. 

Hannah, b. 21 Sept. 1772, m. John Nichols of Southborough. 
Bethiah, d. Southborough, 19 March, 1823. 

THOMAS NIXON. 

Only son of Col. Thomas, whom he succ. in 1802; b. 
Framingham, Mass., 19 March, 1762, d. there 4 Jan. 1842. 
He was a fifer at the Concord fight ; quartermaster's sergeant 
in his father's reg. until discharged, i Dec. 1780. He was 
a Selectman of Framingham for two years, and a Repre- 
sentative to the General Court one year. 

He m. 16 May, 1790, Lydia Hagar, of Marlborough, who d. 21 
May, 1822. Children — 
Warren. 

Otis, b. it March, 1796, who m. Swain, and moved to Ohio. 

SuKEV, b. 23 Nov. 1797, d. unm. 3 Aug. 1828. 
Reny, b. 25 Nov. 1799, d. unm. 29 Jan. 1824. 

WARREN NIXON. 

Eldest son of Thomas, whom he succ. in 1843 ; b. Framing- 
ham, Mass., 9 March, 1793 ; d. there 4 Nov. 1872. He learned 
civil engineering at an early age, and practised that profession 
during his active life. He was chairman of the local board 
of ta.K assessors for forty years ; a Selectman fifteen ; a Repre- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 373 

sentative to the General Court one year. He was also captain 
of a light infantry company in the militia service. 

He ra. May, 1818, Salome, dau. of Edmond Rice of Wayland. 
Children living in 1890 — 

Laurella, b. 6 April, 1820, m. 4 April, 1849, Aaron Hosmer of 
Acton, Mass. 

Olenia, b. 27 Jan. 1822, m. 21 Jan. 1845, Peter B. Davis of 
Framingham. 

Salina, b. 23 July, 1825, m. 18 Feb. 185 i, Baxter Rice of South- 
borough. 

Marcellus. 

MARCELLUS NIXON. 

Only son of Warren, whom he succ. in 1874; was b. Fra- 
mingham, Mass., 6 June, 1833. He served nine months in the 
war of the Rebellion, and receives a pension. He is a farmer, 
and resides in Framingham. 

He m. 14 June, 1857, Martha A., dau. of Nathan Hosmer; (2d) 
9 Nov. 1864, Susan A., dau. of Luther Kendall; (3d) 21 Jan. 
1885, Addie, dau. of William A. Swallow. No children. 

He was b. Fort. Frederic, Pemaquid, Me., 1755; d. N. Y. 
City, 3 Jan. 1836. After his father's death his mother re- 
moved with him to Boston, where he entered the Latin School 
in 1764. On 9 May, 1776, he was com. 2d lieut. in Gill's Co. 
of Crafts's reg. of artillery, and capt. in H. Jackson's (i6th) 
rag. 10 May, 1777. He served as an aide to Baron Steuben 
in 1779, and was a favorite of that officer. He was appointed 
inspector of the troops remaining in service in 1784; was 
several times elected to the Legislature of New York; was 
Speaker of the Assembly; U. S. Senator from 21 May, 1789, 
till 3 March, I799i and a conspicuous Federalist; and was 
one of the first Canal Commissioners of New York. He was 
appointed in 1798 by Pres. Adams, during the quasi war with 



374 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

France, adjutant and inspector-general of the army, with the 
rank of brigadier-general. Baron Steuben, who " loved him 
like a son for his unreserved devotion, for his jovial and ami- 
able disposition, and for his energy and zeal," made him one 
of his executors, and bequeathed to him one half of his es- 
tate, and the sword and gold box given him by the city of 
New York. 

John ^ North, his immigrant ancestor, b. Westmeath, Ireland, came 
to America in i 730 with his wife, Lydia, and settled in Harrington, 
at Pemaquid, Me., and d. 1740. His son, Cn'pt. John^ (father of 
Gen. William), came over with his father in 1730; removed to St. 
George's River ; was capt. of Fort Frederic and Fort St. George's 
during the French and Indian war ; judge of the C. C. P. of Lincoln 
County, appointed in 1760; d. 26 March, 1763. He m. (ist) 

Elizabeth Lewis, who d. ; (2d) 31 July, 1746, Elizabeth, dau. 

of James Pitson of Boston. She d. 24 June, 1 789. 

William m. 14 Oct. 1787, Mary, dau. of Hon. James Duane, who 
d. II May, 1813. Children — ■ 

Frederic William Steuben, b. 14 July, 1788, d. 17S9. 

Marie, b. 12 Aug. 1789, d. 8 June, 181 2. 

James Duane, b. 28 Jan. 1791, d. May, 1792. 

Elizabeth, b. 1792, d. unm. 8 June, 1845. 

William Augustus Steuben, b. i Feb. 1793, m. in 1823 Margaret 
Bridge, d. 7 Nov. 1845 (LTnion Coll. 18 12), left three children. 

Adelia, b. 14 May, 1797, m. Major Henry Saunders, U. S. A. 

^lE|:anTrer ©liber. 

Com. ensign, 19 Oct. 178 1 ; in Vose's (ist) reg. in 1783; 
settled in Belpre, O., in 1789; was a pensioner, living in New 
York, in 1820; and d. soon afterward, leaving a large family. 
A nephew, Henry Jackson Oliver, was living at Broad Alban, 
Montgomery Co., N. Y., in 1827. 

J^otert (©libtr. 

He was b. near Boston, 1738; d. Marietta, O., in May, 
1810. His parents, who were from the north of Ireland, took 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 375 

him when quite young to Barre, where his early years were 
passed on his father's farm. When the war broke out, he 
was a Heut. of a company of minute-men, with which he 
marched to Cambridge in April, 1775. He was com. capt. in 
Doolittle's reg. 12 June, 1775, and was present at the siege of 
Boston in James Reed's reg. in 1776; com. major, I Nov. 
1777, in Greaton's (3d) reg.; brigade major in 1780; brevet- 
colonel in 1782. He was engaged in the battles with Bur- 
goyne, and especially in storming the German intrenchments, 
7 Oct., under Col. Rufus Putnam, to whose regiment he was 
then attached. He was a good disciplinarian, and for a time 
acted as adjutant-general of the Northern division of the army. 
After the war he bought a farm at Conway, Mass., and volun- 
teered in 1786-87 in the suppression of Shays's insurrection. 
He was one of the founders of Marietta in 1788 ; and in 1789, 
with Major Haffield White and Capt. John Dodge, he erected 
a saw and grist mill on Wolf Creek in Waterford, the first 
mills ever built in Ohio. He was one of the leaders in this 
settlement, and active in its defence against the Indians ; was 
a Representative of Washington County in the Territorial 
Legislature in 1798, and one of the five Councillors; was 
President of the Territorial Council in 1800-3 ' colonel of the 
2d reg. militia; and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 

He m. about 1775 Molly Walker, by whom he had a large family 
of children. His son William, b. Conway, 1771, was living in Weth- 
ersfield, Henry Co., 111., in 1849. 

FRANCIS WINTHROP PALFREY. 

He was the eldest son of John Gorham Palfrey, the histo- 
rian ; and was b. Boston, 11 April, 1831 ; d. Cannes, France, 
5 Dec. 1889; admitted in 1875, under the rule of 1854. His 
great-grandfather. Col. William Palfrey (1741-80), on whose 
account he was admitted, was aide-de-camp to Gen. Wash- 



2,^6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ington, with the rank of major, in March and April of 1776. 
He was then appointed paymaster-general of the army, with 
the rank of lieut. -colonel. In 1780 he was appointed consul- 
general to France; but the vessel in which he embarked on 
his mission was lost, with all on board. 

Francis VVinthrop Palfrey * entered college as the first 
scholar of his class, coming from the Boston Latin School, 
and throughout his college course maintained high rank, 
graduating [1851] with distinguished honors. Immediately 
after leaving college he entered the Law School, where he 
subsequently took the degree of Bachelor of Laws ; and 
later he began the practice of his profession in Boston. Well 
grounded in the rudiments of his studies, he gave every 
promise of success at the bar. Soon, however, the great 
Rebellion broke out, and, like thousands of other young men 
at that period, appreciating their duties and their responsi- 
bilities, without hesitation Palfrey offered his services to the 
Government, which were readily accepted. Commissioned as 
lieut.-col. of the 20th Mass. vols, in the summer of 1861 
[July i], he left the State with his regiment, which very soon 
afterward was engaged in the battle of Ball's Bluff. During 
the campaign of the next year this regiment saw a great 
deal of hard service, and was engaged in many severe battles. 
In some of these actions Palfrey was in command, and in 
more than one of them was wounded. At Antietam his 
shoulder was badly shattered, making a wound which was 
ultimately the cause of his death. Promoted to the colonelcy 
[18 Dec. 1862], he was soon obliged to resign from the mili- 
tary service on accoimt of his disabilities; and 13 March, 
1865, he was brevetted a brig.-gen. for gallant conduct at the 
battle of Antietam, and for meritorious services during the 

* This sketch of Gen. Palfrey's career is taken from the remarks of Dr. 
Saimiel A. Green (his classmate) at a meeting of the Mass Historical Society, 
12 Dec. 1889. 



CIN'CINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 2)11 

war. He was commissioned capt. and lieut.-col. commanding 
1st Co. Cadets, M. V. M., 28 Dec. 1870; and aide-de-camp 
on the staff of the Governor of the Commonwealth, 25 Jan. 
1872. In 1S73 he was elected a resident member of the 
Mass. Historical Society. 

" His life after the war was a constant struggle against pain and 
weakness. It was a steady and most gallant fight ; his constant 
purpose being to do the work for which he felt himself fitted, and 
the doing of which he therefore felt must be his appointed task in 
the world. For Gen. Palfrey was a most conscientious man ; ear- 
nestly desirous to ascertain the proper field of duty, he was equally 
decided and persistent in the doing of the work. Unfortunately he 
was so much hampered by his health that he was able to accomplish 
but little. But his writings, though few, were of the best of their 
class. His brief memoir of Major Henry Livermore Abbott, of his 
own regiment, who was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, is an 
admirable piece of work. A more difficult task, the Life of Brevet 
Maj.-Gen. William F. Bartlett, was welcomed by the public as one 
of the most interesting and notable biographies that the war gave to 
us. His contribution to the Scribner series of the Campaigns of the 
Civil War, the volume on the .Antietam and Fredericksburg, was 
carefiilly, impartially, and vigorously written, and is an authority on 
that period of the war. His paper in ' The Memorial History of 
Boston ' is a valuable summary of the work of Boston in the civil 
war." * 

Just before sailing for Europe, in the autumn of 1889, he 
had put the finishing touches on Vol. V. of his father's " His- 
tory of New England," which had been left in manuscript 
by the writer, but still required some revision. 

He was elected SECRETARY of this SOCIETY in 1880, and 
held the position until his death. At a special meeting of 
the Standing Committee, 24 Dec. 1889, Pres. Cobb spoke 
feelingly of the character and career of Gen. Palfrey; and a 

* From remarks of John C. Ropes, Esq., at a meeting of the Mass. Historical 
Society, 12 Dec. 1889. 



2^8 lilOGRAI'llICAL NOTICES OK THE 

series of resolutions, offered by Winslow Warren, Esq., were 
unanimously adopted. 

He m. 2g March, 1865, Louisa Caroline, dau. of Sidney Bartlett 
of Boston. They had — 
Marian, b. 13 Nov. 1866. 
Anna, b. 10 Oct. 1869. 
Louisa, b. 4 Jan. 1873. 



JOHN CARVER PALFREY. 

Brother of Gen. Francis W., whom ho succ. in 1890, was 
b. Cambridge, Mass., 25 Dec. 1833. He was educated at 
the Boston Latin School, the Hopkins Classical School, Cam- 
bridge, Harvard College (A.B. 1853, A.M. 1857), and the 
Military Academy at West Point, — graduating from the 
last-named place as the first scholar in the class of 1857. 
He was com. brevet 2d lieut. corps engineers, U. S. A., i July, 
1857; 2d lieut. 31 Dec. 1857; 1st lieut. 3 Aug. 1861 ; capt. 3 
March, 1863. He was chief engineer at the capture of Port 
Hudson, La., for which he was appointed by the President 
brevet-lieut.-col., U. S. A.; engineer at the capture of Forts 
Gaines and Morgan, Ala., for which he was made brevet- 
major, U. S. A.; assist, insp.-gen. and chief engineer 13th 
army corps, with rank of lieut.-col., U. S. vols., from 15 
March to i Aug. 1865; brevet-lieut.-col. U. S. A. for ser- 
vices at the siege and capture of Mobile, Ala. ; brevet-col. 
and brevet-brig. -gen., U. S. A., for gallant and meritorious 
services during the war of the Rebellion. After the war he 
became Superintendent of the Merrimack Manufacturing Co. 
at Lowell, and continued in that position until 1874, when 
he became Treasurer of the Manchester Mills, which office 
he still holds. He is Vice-President of the Institution for 
Savings; Vice-President of the Webster National Bank; 
member of the Militar\- Historical Society of Massachu- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 379 

setts, and Director of the Ministr)- at Large. He resides in 
Belmont. 

He m. 21 Oct. 1874, Adelaide Eliza, dau. of Samuel Russell Pay- 
son. Children — 

John Gorham, b. 2 Oct. 1875. 

Francis VV'inslow, b. 27 March, 1877. 

Hannah Gilbert, b. 13 Dec. 1881. 

aaron JlarUet. 

He was b. 12 Nov. 1755, in Sharon or Litchfield, Ct. ; d. 
Newburyport, Mass., 21 Feb. 1837. He received a warrant 
from Gov. Hancock as 2d lieut. in Crane's artillery, 7 Nov. 
1781, and was com. by Congress, 17 Jan. 1782; was acting 
paymaster until the close of the war; afterward a merchant 
in Newburyport, where he held many municipal offices. Up 
to 1833 he always attended the 4th of July meetings of the 
Society. 

He m. Jane, dau. of Matthew Perkins, and a sister of Jacob 
Perkins, the inventor. She d. 25 Oct. 1815. They had six sons 
and two daughters. 

By his 2d wife, Mrs. Mary (Wylie) Knapp, who d. 28 March, 
1835, he had one daughter. 

Henry Pardee, the eldest son (b. 29 June, 1787, d. i July, 1815), 
m. in 1810 Fanny Long, dau. of Robert and Ruth (White) Long, 
granddaughter of Judge Philip White of New Hampshire. She d. 
I July, 1814. Their child, Fanny Maria, b. 10 Oct. 1812, m. 
27 March, 1834, William E. Currier of Newburyport, and d. 8 Aug. 
1859. Their children were: Henry Pardee; Marie Long; Lewis 
Augustus; Rufus Choate ; Frederick G. , Fanny yane ; Winfield 
Scott; Wallace Bruce ; Georgiana Augusta ; Adelaide Wilhelmina. 

iScnjamiit parfetr. 

Of Andover; d. 1801. Com. lieut. in Wesson's (afterward 
H. Jackson's 9th) reg. ; served five years, and retired i Jan. 
1783. 



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lEltas parfecr.* 

He was the son of Daniel Parker ; was b. Boston, 3 June, 
1760; d. Petersburg, Va., 8 Dec. 1798. Present with his 
brother Daniel at Bunker Hill; com. 2d lieut. in Crane's 
artillery, 13 Sept. 1777; 1st lieut. 2 Aug. 1780; in Vose's 
(ist) reg. 1781-83. After the war he was a merchant in 
Petersburg, Va. Daniel, his brother (H. U. 1773), d. Salem, 
Mass., in Dec. 1821. He was a 2d lieut. in Knox's artillery, 
1776; was afterward in Brooks's (7th) reg., and subsequently 
taught a grammar-school in Salem. 

His descent from John ' Parker of Biddeford, Eng., one of 
the company of Richard Vines, who took lands at the mouth of the 
Saco River, purchased in 1650 of the Indian Sagamore Robert 
Hood, " Parker's Island," at the mouth of the Kennebec, d. in 1660, 
was through y^?//;/,^ b. 1634, killed by the Indians at Casco in 1690, 
who bought of the Indians in 1659 a large tract of land on the west 
side of the Kennebec, including what is now Phipsburg (his father, 
his wife, and brother were all killed by the Indians) ; Daniel^ b. 
1667, d. 1694, who moved to Charlestown ; Isaac* b. 1692, d. i 742 ; 
Daniel^ (his father), b. 1726, d. 1785, who removed during the 
Revolutionary war to Salem, and who m. Margaret Jarvis. 

ISAAC PARKER, LL D. 

Brother of Elias, whom he succ. in 183O; b. Boston, 17 
June, 1768; d. 26 July, 1830. He was the eighth son of 
Daniel and Margaret (Jarvis) Parker; grad. at Harvard 
University in 1786; studied law in the office of Judge 
Tudor; settled as a lawyer successively in Castine, Portland 
(1801), and Boston (1806) ; was a member of Congress from 
Maine in 1797-99; U.S. Marshal for that district, 1797- 
i8or; President of Mass Constitutional Convention, 1820, 
and took a spirited part in its debates when in committee 

* The original autograph roll is signed E,J Parker, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 38 1 

of the whole; Professor of Law in Harvard University, 1816- 
27; Judge of Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1806-14, and 
Chief-Justice from 18 14 till his death. He was a member 
of many of the societies in and about Boston, — the Ameri- 
can Academy, the Bible Society, and others, — and was 
always willing to perform his share of the labor incident 
to such offices. " For more than a quarter of a century 
he was one of the most influential men in the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts. This influence was noiseless and 
constant; it was found in the temples of justice, the halls 
of legislation, in the seminaries of learning, at the ballot- 
boxes, on 'Change, in the social circle, — everj'where. He 
had genius without eccentricity, and learning without ped- 
antry. In him firmness was united to flexibility, and deli- 
cacy with decision." He received the honorary degree of 
LL.D. from Harvard University in 18 14. 

He m. Rebecca Hall of Boston, and had Edw.4rd \V. and seven 

other children. 

EDWARD WILLIAM PARKER. 

Eldest son of Isaac, whom he succ. in 1831 ; b. Castine, 
Me., 5 May, 1795; d. Hyde Park, Mass., 6 Feb. 1873. He 
had a son, jAMES G. 

Jol&n JIatcrson. 

He was the son of Capt. John Paterson ; was b. Farming- 
ton, Ct., 1743; d. Lisle, Broome Co, N. Y., 19 July, 1808; 
Y. C. 1762. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, 
and practised until about 1774, when he moved with his 
wife's father, Deacon Josiah Lee, to Lenox, Mass., and be- 
came a member of the Provincial Congress of 1774-75. 
The news of the battle of Lexington reached Berkshire at 
noon on the 20th of April ; and at sunrise the following morn- 
ing the regiment of minute-men, which Paterson had been 



382 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

chosen to command, was on the way to Cambridge, where 
it was employed in constructing the first redoubt thrown up 
on the hnes about Boston. On the day of the Bunker Hill 
battle his regiment defended Fort No. 3 in Charlestown, a 
work of their own construction. After the evacuation of 
Boston, Col. Paterson was ordered to Canada, where a part 
of his regiment was engaged in the disastrous affair of the 
Cedars. After the retreat from Canada, the regiment joined 
Washington just in time to take part in the battles of Trenton 
and Princeton. Paterson was com. brig.-gen. 21 Feb. 1777; 
was distinguished at Saratoga and at Monmouth ; was a 
member of the board of officers that tried Major Andre, 
and remained in service to the close of the war. During 
Shays's rebellion, 1786-87, Gen. Paterson headed a detach- 
ment of the Berkshire militia, ordered out for its suppres- 
sion. Subsequently, removing to Binghamton, Broome Co., 
N. Y., he became Chief-Justice of the County Court; was 
four years a member of the Assembly; member of the 
State Constitutional Convention of 1801 ; member of Con- 
gress, 1803-s; and was Vice-Pres. of the Mass. Society 
of the Cincinnati in 1785-86. 

He m. 1766, Elizabeth Lee. They had — 

JosiAH Lee, b. 8 Oct. 1766, m. Jan. 1788, Clarissa, dau. of Gen. 
Caleb Hyde. 

Hannah, m. Eggleston. 

Polly, d. S. Carolina, unm. 

Ruth, b. Aug. 1774, m. 14 Nov. 1797. Ira Seymour of Lisle. 

Betsey, d. unm. 

John Pierce, b. 5 May, 1787, m. 16 Sept. 1809, Sally Osborn. 

M.-uiL^^, b. 1 789, m. April, 1 808, Samuel Kilborn of Spencerport, N. Y. 

He was b. Bedford, Mass, 7 Dec. 1742; d 1829. Present 
at Bunker Hill ; com. licut. in Alden's (afterward Brooks's 7th) 



CINXINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 303 

reg. ; and was in the battles with Burgoyne, and in Sullivan's 
expedition against the Indians in northern New York. 

He m. (ist) Elizabeth Pearl, 9 Feb. 1764, d. 11 March, 1776; 
(2d) Sarah Pearl, 18 March, 1780, d. Feb. 1847. 

Soijn J3c(rcr. 

He was the son of Isaac and Mary (Hardy) Peirce ; b. 
Boston, 28 Sept. 1750; d. unm. at Fort McHenry, Walnut 
Hills, near Vicksburg, Miss., 22 July, 1798. Com. lieut. in 
Knox's artillery in 1776; 2d lieut. in Callender's Co., Crane's 
artillery, 12 Sept. 1777; capt.-lieut. 12 Sept. 1778. He saw 
much active service, beginning with the siege of Boston and 
ending with the close of the war in 1783. Re-entering the 
service of his country under the Confederation, he was com. 
lieut. I May, 1787; lieut. of artillery, 29 Sept. 1789; capt. 
Oct. 1791. Isaac Peirce, his brother (b. 25 Dec. 1753, d. 
27 Feb. 1781), was aide-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Gates with 
the rank of major. His youngest brother, Hardy Peirce (b. 
20 July, 1756), was a lieut. in Knox's artillery, and was 
killed at Fort Lee, 5 Nov. 1776. 

His descent from Thotnas} of Charlestown, 1634, freeman 6 May, 
1635, d. 7 Oct. 1666, ae. 83, and wife Elizabeth, was through Thomas^ 
b. England, who was in Woburn as early as 1643, many years Select- 
man of Woburn, and styled "Sergeant" Thomas, d. 6 Nov. 1683, 
who m. Elizabeth (d. 5 March, 1688) ; Samuel? b. 7 April, 1656, 
freeman 1684, who m. 9 Dec. 1680, Lydia Bacon ; Isaac* b. Boston, 
22 March, 1687, a freeman and entitled Esq., m. 5 May, 1708, 
Grace, dau. of Lewis Tucker of Casco ; Isaac ^ (his father), b. Bos- 
ton, 12 Oct. 1722, d. there 11 Dec. 1811, who m. 5 Jan. 1745, 
Mary Hardy of Salem, and had eight children. 

JO.SEPH PEIRCE 

Eldest brother of John, whom he succ in 1808; b. Boston, 
25 Dec. 1745; d. there i Jan. 1828; Boston Latin School, 



384 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

1756. Boston gave to the cause of the Revolution no family 
more patriotic, devoted, and self-sacrificing than that of 
Isaac Peirce, 2d, and his four sons here noticed. Joseph, 
the elder, was a prominent merchant of the town, a man 
of great integrity, and possessed considerable influence with 
his fellow-citizens. Feeble health and a young and in- 
creasing family prevented his taking an active part in the 
struggle for liberty, which however received the aid both 
of his purse and his influence. From his store on the 
north side of State Street he witnessed the " Massacre " of 
5 March, 1770. He was the founder of the Provincial 
"Grenadier" corps, and its commander on the occasion 
of its first parade, 8 June, 1772 ; Henry Knox, afterward 
major-general and Secretary of War, being second in com- 
mand. The splendid uniform, military appearance, drill, 
and efficiency of this corps are of traditional renown. It 
elicited the commendation of the British officers then in 
Boston, and received the special notice of Gov. Gage on his 
public entry into Boston in May, 1774. Mr. Pierce was 
the friend and correspondent of Gen. Knox, with whom 
he was afterward associated in the proprietorship of large 
tracts of land in Maine. Knox's letters to him were, un- 
fortunately, lost in 181 1, by the burning of a store in which 
they were deposited. 

His son, Joseph Hardy Peirce, succ. him in the Society in 
1828, but omitted to qualify himself by making the usual 
declaration. He was b. Boston, 8 March, 1773; was a mer- 
chant and supercargo, and made several foreign voyages ; was 
Secretary of the Board of War of Massachusetts in 1 81 2-14; 
clerk of the Municipal Court, 1816-30; agent of Massachu- 
setts for claims against the General Government growing 
out of the war of 1812; and was lost at sea, while on the 
passage from New York to Mobile and New Orleans, in 
Dec. 18^1. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 385 

Joseph m. 6 April, 1771, Ann, dau. of Col. Thomas Dawes. 
Children — 

Joseph Hardy, m. Frances Temple Cordis, and had many children. 
Ann, b. 11 Aug. 1774, d. 10 Oct. 1800, m. John Lathrop, son of 

Rev. John Lathrop, of Boston. 
Hannah Dawes, b. 3 Jan. 1783, m. Thos. P. Kettell, d. 1856. 
Elizabeth Somes, b. 25 Oct. 1787, m. Fitch Pool Putnam. 
Maria, b. Oct. 1789. 

HENRY AUGU.STUS PEIRCE. 

Son of Joseph JJardy, and grandson of Joseph Peirce, 
whom he succ. in 1856; b. Dorchester, Mass., 15 Dec. 1808; 
d. San Francisco, Cal., 29 July, 1885. He was educated at 
public and private schools of Boston. In Oct. 1824, at the 
age of si.Kteen, he embarked in the " Griffin," commanded by 
his brother Marcus T. Peirce, for a voyage to the N. W. coast, 
a country now known as the Territory of Alaska, where he 
was engaged in the fur trade until the year 1829. He then 
sailed for Honolulu, where he resided as a merchant until his 
return to Boston, with a moderate fortune, in 1842. Here he 
became an extensive merchant and ship-owner, engaged in 
commerce with the Hawaiian Islands, Russian settlements in 
Asia, California, Manila, and China. During the civil war he 
encountered severe losses; and in 1867, having withdrawn in 
a great measure from business, he settled in Yazoo Co., Miss., 
as a cotton-planter. Owing to unpropitious seasons, and 
also to unfortunate speculations in the cotton-market, he lost 
nearly all the remainder of a once large fortune, accumulated 
by so much of toil and enterprise. Through the interest of 
Hon. Hamilton Fish, President-General of the Society and 
Secretary of State of the United States, he was in May, 1869, 
appointed U. S. Minister, resident at Honolulu, Hawaiian 
Islands. He held that position until 1877. In Jan. 1878, 
being then in San Francisco, he was appointed by King 
Kalakaua to be Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Hawaiian 



386 l!I()GKAriIICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Government. In July following he resigned and returned to 
San Francisco, where he took up his permanent residence. 
Assist. Treas. of the Society, 1865-77. 

He m. 5 July, 1838, Susan R. Thompson. Children — 

Ella Augusta, 3 Oct. 1839, m. Frederick Clapp of Greenfield, 

Mass. 
Henry Marcus, b. 23 Nov. 1846.* 

Silas ^Ici'rcf. 

He was b. Groton, Mass., 27 July, 1750; d. Peterborough, 
N. H., 22 Nov. 1809. Com. capt. in M. Jackson's (-Sth) reg. 
5 Dec. 1779; wounded in the left arm, and afterward a pen- 
sioner. He m. Hannah, dau. of Gen. Henry Woods, of 
Pepperell. 

He was b. Boston, 1742; was a mechanic, and before the 
Revolution was a member of Paddock's artillery Co. At the 
battle of Bunker Hill he was a lieut. in Callender's Co.i of 
which, after the court-martial and temporary disgrace of that 
brave officer, he was made captain. Com. capt. in Knox's 
reg. of artillery, i "Jan. 1776; in Crane's reg. of artillery, i 
Jan. 1777; com. major of the same, 12 Sept. 1778; served 
through the war, and present at the siege of Boston ; stationed 
at "Grenadier's" battery, N. Y., in June, 1776; at Harlem 
Heights in Oct. 1776; at Peek's and Fish Kill, Dec. 1776; 
Whitemarsh, Nov. 1777; Valley Forge, 1777-78; in Sulli- 
van's R. I. campaign, 1778; in charge of the park of artillery 
and military stores at Providence, 1779-81 ; and afterward at 
West Point. On 10 Nov. 1785, he was appointed to the com- 
mand of the Castle in Boston harbor, then belonging to the 

* A full report on the succession to the place made vacant by the death of 
H. A Peirce will be found on the records of the Standing Committee, 4 July, 
1887. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 387 

State of Massachusetts, and continued in command with rank 
of Heut.-col. until its cession in 1798 to the United States. 
Col. Perkins d. of yellow fever at Boston, 27 Oct. 1802. 

His descent from Edmund'^ Perkins of Boston, 1675, who d. ab. 
1693, and wife Susannah, widow of John Howlett, dau. of Francis 
Hudson, was through Edmund;'- b. 6 Sept. 1683, who m. Mary Far- 
ris ; Willitim^ (his father), and Elizabeth, dau. of William Palfrey 
of Boston. He m. 20 Dec. 1 763, Abigail Cox. Children — 
William, lost at sea ab. 1 792, no issue. 
Samuel. 

Abigail, m. Benj. Weld of Boston, d. Brunswick, Me. 
Elizabeth, d. unm. at Brighton, Mass. 
Ann, b. Providence, R. I., m. Samuel Rogers of Boston, d. 

Brighton, Mass. 
Henry, b. Boston, d. at sea, no issue. 
Charles James, b. Boston, 17 June, 1784, d. Rio Janeiro, 26 

Aug. 18 1 7, no issue. 
La Fayette, b. Castle Island, Boston harbor, 26 March, 1786, 
M. D. (H. U. 1814), m. Dorcas, dau. of Benj. Abbot, 30 Dec. 
181 7, had six children. 

SAMUEL PERKINS. 

Eldest son of Col. William, whom he succ. in 1804; b. 
Boston, 2 Sept. 1770; d. Ro.xbury, Mass., i Aug. 1846. 
When about thirteen years old he became an apprentice 
to Major John Johnston, portrait-painter; and at nineteen 
began the painting business, chiefly on houses and ships, 
and continued it till about 1815, when he undertook to 
paint carpets. He built a large factory for this business in 
Roxbury, which he carried on for some years. President 
of the Mass. Charitable Mechanics' Association in 1825 and 
1826; Assist, Treas. of the Societv of the Cincinnati, 
1835-41 ; Treasurer, 1841-45. 

He m. 16 May, 1793, Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Call of Boston, 
and had five sons, four of whom d. without issue, and six daughters. 



388 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

WILLIAM PERKINS. 

Eldest son of Samuel, whom he succ. in 1847; was b. 
Boston, 4 Oct. 1804; d. there 13 July, 1887. He was for 
many years a prominent and successful merchant in his 
native city, and held many positions of trust and responsi- 
bility. He was elected TREASURER of the MASS. Sc^iety of 
the Cincinnati in 1847, and held the office until 1878, when 
his associates yielded to his urgent request to be relieved 
from a service which had become burdensome on account of 
age. He received the thanks of the Society for his long and 
faithful services, and a committee was appointed to procure 
and present to him some token expressive of the value of 
his services and of the regard in which he was held by 
his associates. The committee presented to him, on 7 Nov. 
1878, a silver salver, bearing the following inscription: — 

THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI 

TO 

WILLIAM PERKINS. 

In grateful recognition of his services as Treasurer of the Society 
from A.D. 1847 to A.D. 1878, covering a period of thirty-one years. 
A service distinguished by an integrity as unsullied as it was unques- 
tioned, a devotion to duty that never flagged, and a demeanor that 
commanded universal respect and admiration. 
July 4, 1878. 

At a meeting of the Standing Committee, 3 Nov. 1887, 
Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, President of the Society, in speaking 
of the loss sustained by them in the death of iVIr. Perkins, 
said : — 

" To great modesty and simplicity of manner he united inflexible 
firmness and stern integrity. During forty years he was recognized as 
one of the most influential members in the councils of this Society ; 
and I do not hesitate to affirm that during this period no member ren- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 3S9 

dered more important and valuable services. By his death the Mass. 
Society of the Clnxixnati is deprived of one of its purest and noblest 
members, and our community loses a well known and estimable 
citizen." 

He m. 2 Nov. 1835, Catharine Callender, dau. of John .^mory of 
Dorchester. Children — 

James Amory, b. 9 July, 1836, H. U. 1856, ist lieut. 24th Mass. 

vols., killed at Morris Island, S. C, 26 Aug. 1863, no issue. 
WiLLiAJi Edward, b. 23 March, 1838. 
Robert Shaw, b. 6 July, 1842, d. 8 June, 1873. 
Helen Amorv, b. 25 May, 1846, m. Dr. John Homans of Boston. 



JOHN WARREN PERKINS. 

Son of La Fayette Perkins, and grandson of Col. William, 
adm. 1888, was b. Weld, Me., 17 March, 1820. He was 
educated at Farmington, Me.; went into business there in 
1840; removed to Portland in 1853, and is engaged in busi- 
ness there as a wholesale druggist. 

He m. (ist) June, 1845, Margaret Hunter of Farmington, Me. ; 
he m. (2d) Oct. 29, i86r, Eliza A. Bellows of Lancaster, N. H. 
Children — 

Edward W., b. Aug. 27, 1850. 

M.\RY B., b. May 14, 1863. 

Maude E., b. June 9, 187 1. 

He was b. Medfield, Mass., 24 Jan 1742 ; d. Westborough, 
Mass., 5 Feb. 1822. He enlisted from Mendon as capt. 
in Col. Joseph Read's reg. in May, 1775 ; com. major in 
Bailey's (2d) reg. i Jan. 1777; com. lieut.-col. of Bigelow's 
(15th) reg. I July, 1779; present at the siege of Boston, 
invasion of Canada, surrender of Burgoyne, and continued 
in service until i Jan. 1781. 



390 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. 30 March, 1768, Beulah Lovett. Children (all b. in 

Mendon) — 
Lovett. 

Daniel, b. 2 7 July, 1 7 70. 
Sibyl, b. 4 Sept. 1772. 
SiLVLV, b. 8 Nov. 1783. 
Hannah, b. 14 March, 17S6. 

LOVETT PETERS. 

Eldest son of Col. Andrew, whom he succ. in 1824; b. 
Mendon, Mass., 19 Jan. 1769; d. Westborough, 15 Jan. 1863. 

He m. Mary Plympton, and had — 
Beulah Lovett, b. 2 April, 1797. 
Andrew, b. ii March, 1799, d. unm. 11 April, 1840. 
Augustus, b. 7 Nov. 1800, d. Brookfield, Wis., 1847, "■>• ^' Roches- 
ter, N. Y., 10 Oct. 1830, Lucy Pollard, and hz.d. John Lovett. 
Onslovi', b. I March, 1802. 
Mary Plympton, b. 26 May, 1804. 
William, b. 5 March, 1807. 
Daniel, b. 9 Nov. 1808. 
John, b. 26 Dec. 18 10. 
Hannah Phipps, b. 23 June, 181 2. 

JOHN LOVETT PETERS. 

Son of Augustus, and grandson of Lovett, whom he 
succ. in 1866; b. Detroit, Mich., 11 July, 1831 ; resides in 
Worcester, Mass. 

He m. 29 Dec. 1859, Mary Frances Eddy. Children — 
William Curtis, b. N. Brookfield, Mass., 10 Feb. 1S61. 
John Eddy, b. Worcester, Mass., 17 Oct. 1866. 
Lewis Augustus, b. 22 July, 1869. 
Charles Adams, b. 29 June, 1875. 

JOBcpl) 33cttfnflCn. 

Com. ensign in Scamman's (afterward E. Phinney's) York 
reg. in May, 1775, and present at the siege of Boston; capt. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 39 1 

in L. Baldwin's reg. 1775-76, and in the operations in New 
York, and battles of Trenton and Princeton; com. major in 
Wesson's (9th) reg. 26 July, 1779; in Vose's reg. 1781-83; 
and d. soon after the war. 

Com. ensign in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. 1777; com. ist 
lieut. 14 Oct. 1781 ; aide-de-camp to Gen. Paterson, and com. 
capt. 30 Sept. 1783 ; received half pay on account of wounds. 
He m. Feb. 1789, at Charleston, S. C, Susannah Frances 
Barksdale, and d. 7 Jan. 18 10, at Spring Island, S. C. 

Com. lieut. in Wigglesworth's (13th) reg. 22 Oct. 1777; 
served in Sullivan's R. I. campaign, and wounded there 
(1778); in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783. He d. Baltimore, Md., 
in Sept. 1827, ae. 80, leaving a widow who survived him 
nearly thirty years. His dau. Mrs. Eliza Spinola, was living 
in New York in 1850. 

patn'cfe ^ijflom 

Com. lieut. 20 June, 1777, in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg., and 
considered by him " one of the best officers in the line ; " in 
Mellen's (3d) reg. 1783; app. capt. 2d U. S. inf. 4 March, 
1791; killed, 4 Nov. 1791, in Gen. St. Clair's battle with 
the Miami Indians. 

TIMOTHY PICKERING. 

He was an original member of the Pa. Society, but sub- 
sequently became a member of the Mass. Society by right 
of residence. He was b. in Salem, Mass., 17 July, 1745; d. 
there 29 Jan. 1829; H. U. 1763. Admitted to the bar in 



392 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

1768, he became the cliampion and leader of the Whigs of 
Essex County, and first opposed an armed resistance to the 
British troops when (26 Feb. 1775), being then a colonel of 
militia, he interposed to prevent a detachment of regulars 
from crossing the drawbridge in Salem to seize some military 
stores. In 1775 he was appointed a judge of C. C. P. for 
Essex County, and sole judge of the Maritime Court for the 
middle district. Joining Washington in New Jersej' in the 
fall of 1776 with his regiment, he was in May, 1777, made 
adjutant-general of the army. In Nov. following he was 
made a member of the Board of War, and succeeded Greene 
as quartermaster-general, 5 Aug. 1780. He performed the 
arduous duties of that office until 1785. After the war he 
resided in Philadelphia, and in 1786 was sent by the Govern- 
ment to adjust a controversy between various claimants to 
the Wyoming settlement, in the course of which he was very 
rouglily handled. He favored the adoption of the Federal 
Constitution in the Pa. Convention, of which he was a mem- 
ber. He was Postmaster-General of the United States, 7 
Nov. 1791-2 Jan. 1795; Secretary of War, Jan.-io Dec. 
1795; Secretary of State, 10 Dec. 1795-12 May, 1800. He 
returned to Salem at the close of 1801, and was elected 
by the Mass. Legislature U. S. Senator, 1803-11. He was 
a member of the Board of War of Massachusetts during 
the war of 1812-15; and a Representative in Congress 
1 81 5-17. He was one of the leaders of the Federal party 
in Ijhe United States, was active in promoting the cause 
of education, and was a talented writer, a brave and pa- 
triotic soldier, a disinterested, able, and energetic public 
officer. 

He had ten children ; namely, JOHX ; Timothy ; Henry ; Ch.arles ; 
William ; Edward ; George ; Octavius ; Mary ; Elizabeth. His 
son, Octavius Pickering, published his " Life and Correspondence " 
in 2 vols, in 1867. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 393 

JOHN PICKERING. 

Eldest son of Col. Timothy, whom he succ. in 1843 ; was 
b. Salem, Mass., 17 Feb. 1777; d. Boston, 5 May, 1846. He 
studied law in Philadelphia; was in 1797 app. Secretary of 
Legation to Portugal ; was two years in London as private 
secretary to Rufus King, U. S. Minister; and practised law 
in Salem from 1801 to 1827, when he settled in Boston. 
He was City Solicitor of Boston from 1829 until his death. 
Although he had a large practice, his great industry and econ- 
omy in the use of time made him one of the most profound 
scholars of the country. He was three times Representative 
to the General Court from Salem, twice a Senator from Essex 
and once from Suffolk County, and was a member of the 
Executive Council, In 1833 he was a member of the com- 
mission for revising the Statutes of Massachusetts. Li 1806 
he was elected Hancock Professor of Hebrew in Harvard 
University, and at a later day was invited to the chair of 
Greek Literature. He was President of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Oriental Society of Bos- 
ton, and a member of many scientific and literary bodies in 
Europe. He served as AssLST. Treas. of the SOCIETY of the 
Cincinnati, in 1845. He was the author of numerous trea- 
tises upon philolog)% being more or less familiar with twenty- 
two different languages. His principal work was a Greek and 
English Le.xicon, begun in 1814, but not finished until 1826. 

His descent from John * Pickering, of Ipswich in 1634, of Salem 
in 1637, b. England ab. 1615, d. ab. 1655, and his wife Elizabeth, 
was through _/<?/;«, ^ who d. 5 May, 1694, se. 56, who m. 1657, Alice, 
dau. of Wm. Flint; John^ b. 10 Sept. 1658, d. 19 June, 1722, and 

wife Sarah ; Deacon Timothy,^ d. 7 June, 1778, ae. 75, his wife 

d. 1784; Col. Timothy^ (his father), who m. 8 April, 1776, 

Rebecca, dau. of Benjamin White of Boston. 

John m. Sarah AVhite. Children: Marv Orne ; John; Henry 
White. 



394 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

JOHN PICKERING. 

Eldest son of John, whom he succ. in 1867, was b. Salem, 
Mass., 8 Nov. 1808 ; d. there 20 Jan. 1882. He was for many 
years a stockbroker in Boston. 

He m. 22 Oct. 1850, Mehitable Smith Cox. They had — 
Sarah White, b. 20 June, 1852. 
Mary Orne, b. 28 June, 1854. 
John. 

JOHN PICKERING. 

Son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1887, was b. Salem, 
Mass., 24 May, 1857; H. U. 1878. He resides in Salem. 

He m. 18 Oct. 18S8, Anna Dane, dau. of Daniel Augustus Varney. 



JScnjamin fierce. 

He was b. Chelmsford, Mass., 25 Dec. 1757; d. Hills- 
borough, N. H., I April, 1839. Losing his father when he 
was but six years of age, he labored on the farm of his uncle 
Robert until April 25, 1775, when he enlisted in Ford's Co. of 
Bridge's reg., and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. Orderly- 
sergt. of M. Jackson's (8th) reg., he was promoted ensign for 
gallantry at Bemis's Heights, 7 Oct. 1777, and was com. lieut. 
7 July, 1782. He was, while a prisoner in New York, grossly 
insulted by a British officer, whom he ran through the body 
in a duel, after the evacuation of that city. In 1786 he com- 
menced clearing land for a farm in the valley of the Contoo- 
cook River, N. H. ; was a representative to the General Court 
in 1789-1802; successively maj"or, colonel, and (in 1805) 
brig. -gen. of militia; member of the Council, 1803-9 and 
1814-18; Sherifif of Hillsborough, 1809-14 and 1818-23; 
Governor of New Hampshire in 1827 and 1829; Vice-Pres. 
of the Mas.s. Society of the Cincinn.vti from 1836 to 1839. 




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CIN'CIXXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 395 

His descent from Thomas'^ of Woburn, 1643, many years Select- 
man of Woburn, and styled " Sergeant " Thomas, b. England, d. 
6 Nov. 1683, who m. Elizabeth, d. 5 March, 1688, was through 
Stephen^ b. 16 July, 1651, who settled at Chelmsford, and his wife, 
Tabitha; Stephen^ one of the purchasers of Wonalancet's posses- 
sions, southwest of the Merrimac, known as Wamesit, on which he 
aftenvard settled; Benjamin^ (his father), of whose ten children he 
was the seventh. He m. 24 May, 1787, Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac 
Andrews, who d. 13 Aug. 1788, se. 20. He m. (2d) in 1789, Anna, 
dau. of Benjamin Kendrick of Amherst. She d. Dec. 1838, ae. 70. 
Children — 

Elizabeth Andrews, m. Gen. John McNeil, d. March, 1S55. 

Benjamin K. 

Nancy M., m. Gen. Solomon McNeil, d. 27 April, 1837, se. 44. 

John Sullivan, lieut. in the war of 1812, d. Detroit, 1825. 

Harriet B., m. Hugh Jameson of Boston, d. 24 Nov. 1837, se. 37. 

Charles Grandison, d. Utica, N. Y., 5 June, 1828, ae. 25. 

Franklin. 

Charlotte, d. in infancy. 

Henry Dearborn, b. 19 Sept. 1812. 

BENJAMIN KENDRICK PIERCE. 

Eldest son of Gen. Benjamin, whom he succ. in 1841 ; b. 
Hillsborough, N. H.,2i Aug. 1790; d. New York City, i April, 
1850. App. 1st lieut. 3d U.S. artillery, 12 March, 1812; 
capt. Oct. 1 8 17; major, i Oct. 1823; ist artillery, 11 June, 
1836; brevet-lieut.-col. for distinguished service at Fort 
Drane, Fla., 21 Aug. 1836; col. of a reg. of Creek mounted 
vols, in Florida war, 29 Oct. 1836; lieut.-col. 1st artillery, 19 
March, 1842. 

FRANKLIN PIERCE. 

Son of Gen. Benjamin and brother of Col. B. K. Pierce, 
whom he succ. in 1852; b. Hillsborough, N. H., 23 Nov. 
1804; d. Concord, N. H., 8 Oct. 1869; Bowd. Coll. 1824. 
He studied law under Levi Woodbury; was admitted to 



396 EIOCRAnilCAL NOTICES OF THE 

the bar in 1827; practised first at Hillsborough, and about 
183S removed to Concord. In 1833-37 he was a member 
of Congress; was a U. S. Senator in 1837-42; refused the 
offices of Attorney-General and Secretary of War tendered 
him by Pres. Polk; vigorously supported the annexation of 
Texas; was app. col. i6th U. S. inf. 1846; brig. -gen. 3 
March, 1847 ; joined the army of Gen. Scott in the valley of 
Mexico, and was severely injured by the fall of his horse 
upon his leg, 19 Aug. 1847. In the winter of 1850-51 he 
presided over the N. H. Constitutional Convention. Nomi- 
nated by the Democratic Convention at Baltimore, he was 
chosen President of the United States for the term of 4 March, 
1853-57, receiving 254 electoral votes to 42 for his Whig 
competitor. Gen. Scott. His administration was signalized 
by the acquisition from Mexico of Arizona; the organization 
of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, by which the Mis- 
souri Compromise Act was repealed; and by the troubles in 
Kansas caused by the efforts to make of it a slave State. The 
latter part of his life he passed in the practice of law at Con- 
cord. He m. Jane Means, dau. of Rev. Jesse Appleton. 

HENRY DEARBORN PIERCE. 

Youngest son of Gen. Benjamin and brother of Franklin, 
whom he succ. in 1873 ; was b. Hillsborough, N. H., 19 Sept. 
1812; d. there 9 April, 1882. 

He m. II Nov. 1841, Sus:;n Tuttle. Children — 

Kirk Dearborn. 

Frank Hawthorne, b. Jan. 10, 184S. 

KIRK DEARBORN PIERCE. 

Eldest son of Henry Dearborn Pierce, whom he succ. in 
1889; was b. Hillsborough, N. H., 11 Aug. 1845. He was 
educated at Boscawen, N. H., is a lawyer by profession, and 
resides in Hillsborouirh. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 397 

He m. 1 7 Feb. 1 8 79, Mary A., dau. of Dennis Collins. Children — 
Susan Hawthorne, b. 16 Dec. 1880. 
Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1883. 

JOSIAH PIERCE. 

He was b. Gorham, Me., 14 June, 1827; educated at Bow- 
doin College; admitted in 1859 under the rule of 1854. His 
maternal grandfather, Archelaus Lewis of Westbrook, Me., 
enlisted as a sergeant in Jonas Sawj'er's Co. of Col. Phinney's 
reg. in April, 1775 ; was com. ensign, i Feb. 1776; served at 
the siege of Boston ; promoted to be licut. 18 April, 1776; 
served as lieut. and adj. in Vose's (ist) reg. from i Jan. 
1777, till his resignation, 20 Feb. 1779. He was a member of 
the Mass. Legislature from Falmouth (Portland) in 1801. 

Hon. Josiah Pierce was U. S. Secretary of Legation at St. 
Petersburg, Russia, from Sept. 1855 till April, 1858. He was 
made a Knight of the F..ussian Order of St. Anne in 1865. 
He is a counsellor at law, and resides in London, Eng. 

His descent from " Sergeant " Thomas ^ Pierce of Woburn, b. 
1608, d. 1688, and his wife Elizabeth Cole, was through " Ensign" 
Johti"^ of Woburn, b. 1643, d. 1720, and his wife Deborah Convers ; 
" Lieut." yw/a/i ' of Woburn, b. 1691, d. 1759, and his wife Hannah 
Thompson; Josiah* of Woburn, b. 1720, d. 1799, and his 2d wife 
Widow Ruth Symonds Thompson (by her rst husband, mother of 
Count Rumford) ; Josiah ° of Woburn, afterward of Baldwin, Me., 
b. 1756, d. 1830, and his wife Phebe Thompson (whose father was 
killed at the battle of Lexington) ; " ]\idge" Josiah^ of Baldwin, 
afterward of Gorham, Me., b. 1792, d. 1866, and his wife Evelina 
Lewis (dau. of Archelaus Lewis, officer in the army of the 
Revolution). 

He m. (ist) 23 April, 1858, Martha Derby, dau. of Edward 
Lander, and had — 

Eliza, b. 13 April, 1859, d. 20 May, 1877. 

Josiah, b. 30 Jan. 1861. 

Alexander, b. 16 July, 1867, d. 7 June, 1874. 



398 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. (2d) Isabella Lewinna, dau. of Daniel Warner Millett, and 
had — 

Dorothy, b. 29 July, 1881. 

mniamin j^iiae. 

Of Douglass, Mass. ; was an ensign and afterward lieut. in 
Joseph Read's (13th) reg. at the siege of Boston; capt. in 
Nixon's (6th) reg., com. 16 Oct. 1780, disbanded i Jan. 1783. 
He removed before 1 788 to Pittstown, N. Y. 

Ksaac ^ope. 

He was b. at Dartmouth, Mass., 3 July, 1744; d. Wells, Me., 
21 June, 1820. He was the son of Isaac and Lydia (Mitchell) 
Pope, and a great-grandson of Thomas ' Pope, the emigrant 
ancestor, who was b. 1608, and is mentioned in the " Ply- 
mouth Records " as living in Plymouth, Mass., in 163 1, and 
in Dartmouth in 1674, where he d. Oct. 1683. In 1775 Isaac 
Pope was living at South Rochester, Mass., working as a far- 
mer. He was one of the " minute-men," and on the " Lex- 
ington alarm " joined Col. Cotton's Plymouth reg., and was 
com. lieut. in May, 1775 ; capt. in Shepard's (4th) reg., i Jan. 
1777; major in Greaton's (3d) reg. 12 Oct. 1782. He was 
on the staff of Gen. John Sullivan at one time. On 19 Jan. 
1779, he bought the old " Storer Garrison House " and farm, 
at Wells, York Co., Me., and sent his wife and six young 
children there the same year, joining them at the close of the 
war. He spent the remainder of his life there. His widow 
survived him nine years, dying 21 March, 1829. They were 
buried in the old cemetery at Wells, in which town several of 
Major Pope's grandchildren now reside and till the soil he 
once owned. Bourne, in his " History of Wells," says : — 

" We knew him well as one of uncommon urbanity, distinguished 
all his life for that suavity of manner and general dignity of deport- 
ment which characterized the old English gentleman. Politeness 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 399 

seemed to be a controlling element of his nature, and under all cir- 
cumstances he demeaned himself with much acceptance in social 
life. Even when impressed with the conviction that a wrong was 
done to him, or when offended by the acts or speech of others, his 
denunciations were always qualified by those gracious terms which 
aristocracy regards as material in the intercourse of refined life. 
His habits of life were very much in unison with those of the higher 
classes in England, indulging himself in those comforts which his 
taste dictated. He was a brave and efficient officer in the Revolu- 
tionary war. After his discharge from that service, he was one of 
the selectmen of Wells for several years, and for a time was engaged 
in coasting, to which he added some attention to agriculture. Under 
the Act of 1 8 18 he received a pension, but lived only a little while 
to enjoy it. He left a large family of children, who are respectable 
and influential members of society." 

His descent from Thomas'^ Pope of Plymouth, 1631, and Sarah, 
dau. of John and Sarah (Carey) Jenney of Plymouth, whom he m. 
for his 2d wife, 19 May, 1646, was through Isaac^ b. about 1665, at 
Plymouth, d. at Dartmouth, Mass., 1733, m. 1687, Alice Mind, d. 
1755 ; Isaac^ (his father), b. 10 Sept. 1697, at Dartmouth, d. after 
1750, m. 23 March, 1727, Lydia, dau. of Jacob and Rebecca (Cush- 
raan) Mitchell of Kingston, b. 1710. They had six children, Isaac* 
being the only son. 

He m. 1 766, Olive, dau. of Rev. Ivory and Olive (Jordan) Hovey 
of South Rochester, Mass. (b. 1747, d. 21 March, 1829), and had 
ten children — 

Is.4.\c, b. 1767, d. 1846. 

Olive, b. 1768, d. 1797. 

Anna, b. 1771, d. ab. 1850. 

Joanna, b. 1774, d. 1846. 

Capt. S.AMUEL, b. 1776, d. 1836. 

Capt. John Sullivan, b. 1778, d. 1854. 

Ivory, b. 1781, impressed in war of 181 2 and never heard from. 

Sally, b. 1783, d, 1862. 

Mary, b. 1786, d. 1834. 

Capt. DoinNicus, master mariner, b. 6 July, 1788. d. Island of St. 
Thomas, i Jan. 1844, m. 1808, Sally, dau. of Abijah and Sarah 



400 BIUGKAl'HICAL NOTICES OK THE 

(Gilpatrick) Tarbox of Biddeford, Me. She was b. 27 Oct. 
1789, d. W. Somerville, Mass., 9 April, 1887. They had eleven 
children. 

IVORY HOVEY POPE. 

Son of Capt. Dominicus and grandson of Major Isaac, whom 
he succ. in 1888, was b. Wells, Me., 29 May, 1828; educated 
at Kennebunkport, Me. ; appointed clerk of the War De- 
partment, Washington, 23 June, 1863, resigned 30 Nov. 1865, 
and was appointed clerk in the Boston Naval Office of Cus- 
toms; 26 June, 1874, com. Acting Deputy, and 29 March, 
1875, Deputy of the Office, which position he now (1890) 
holds. He resides in West Somerville, Mass. 

He m. 20 June, 1859, Sarah Maria, dau. of Charles and Mary 
(Pope) Goodwin of Kennebunkport, Me. No children. 



He was of Welsh ancestry; b. Boston, 1743; d. Maiden, 
Mass., 8 May, 1827. Before the war he was a tailor, and a 
member of Paddock's artillery Co.; was capt. of artillery in 
Gridley's reg., in the battle of Bunker Hill and siege of 
Boston; com. capt. in Knox's artillery, 4 Jan. 1776, and was 
in the battle of White Plains; com. major in Greaton's (3d) 
reg. I Jan. 1777 ; aide to Gen. Lincoln at Saratoga; and com. 
lieut.-col. of Crane's artillery reg. 15 July, 1777, in which he 
continued until it was disbanded in 1783. After the war he 
removed to Bolton, Worcester Co., Mass., where he kept a 
store and also carried on a farm. Losing his first wife, 
Rebecca Snelling, about 1794, he afterward married Mrs. 
Sarah Sargent, a niece of Rev. Eliakim Willis of Maiden, in 
which place he resided till his death. He was an inspector 
of customs in Boston, and walked from Maiden and back 



CINCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. 4OI 

every day except Sunday, from 1789 until after he was eighty- 
four years old. His children were — 

John Snelling. 

William, b. 1783, H. U. 1803, taught school and preached, and 

d. early in 1827. 
Ebenezer Willis, idiotic. 

JOHN SNELLING POPKIN, D.D 

Eldest son of Col. John, whom he succ. in 1827 ; b. Boston, 
19 June, 1771 ; d. Cambridge, Mass., 2 March, 1852; H. U. 
1792; Greek tutor at H. U. 1795-98; Professor of Greek, 
1815-26; Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, 1826-33, and 
received the honorary degree of D.D. from that University 
in 1815; pastor of the Federal St. (Unitarian) Church of 
Boston, 1799-1802; and of the First Church, Newbury, 
1804-15. 

JScnjamiit Jones porter. 

He was the son of Major Billy Porter; was b. Beverly, 
Mass., 20 Sept. 1763 ; d. Camden, Me., 18 Aug. 1847. After 
completing his academical course at Byfield Academy, he 
studied medicine with his uncle Dr Jones, a surgeon in the 
continental army; was com. surgeon's mate in Tupper's (i ith) 
reg. 10 April, 1780; in H. Jackson's (4th) reg. in 1783; after- 
ward practised medicine successively in Scarborough, West- 
brook, and Portland, Me. ; and became a partner with Hon. 
William King in the lumbering business, in Topsham, whence, 
in the fall of 1829, he removed to Camden, Me. He sus- 
tained severe losses in consequence of the embargo, and by 
the freshet of 18 14 on the Androscoggin River. Prior to 
this, he was one of the Governor's Council, and was also 
Senator from Lincoln County. Dr. Porter was a man of rare 
conversational powers and great suavity of manners. A.M. 
Bowd. Coll. 1809; Fellow and Treasurer, 1806-15. 
26 



402 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. Elizabeth L., sister of Hon. Rufus and Hon. William King, 
and had six children, of whom were — 
Hon. Charles R., of Bath. 
Rufus J. King, of Kingfield, Me. 
Benjamin Jones, postmaster of Camden, Me., in 1S59. 

3otl Pratt. 

Of Sterling; b. 1752; d. 1844. Com. ensign in Bigelow's 
(15th) reg. I Jan. 1777; com. lieut. I March, 1779; lieut. 
in Drew's Co. of Shepard's (4th)' reg. i Sept. 1781-31 Dec. 
1782; in H. Jackson's (4th) reg. in 1783. His dau. Betsy 

m. Keyes. 

JOEL PRATT. 

Eldest son of Joel, whom he succ. in 1845; b- Sterling, 
Mass., 2 March, 1789; d. there 13 Sept. 1868. His only son. 
Major James A. Pratt, d. 14 Dec. 1870,26. 43. There are 
several grandchildren now living. 

StJJjn IJras. 

He was b. Portsmouth, N. H. ; d. city of New York, Sept. 
1812; was com. ensign of Silas Weld's Co. in E. Phinney's 
reg. I April, 1776; lieut. in Bigelow's (15th) reg. in Sulli- 
van's R. I. campaign in 1778; com. capt. 5 July, 1779, in 
Sprout's (i2th) reg.; app. to command of Block House at 
Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., 11 March, 1781. He joined the N. Y. 
Society by transfer in 1799, and contributed his month's pay 
to that Society. 

He m. Jane Mesier, and had one son and two daughters. 

Joscplj IJrrscott. 

He was the son of Dr. Jonathan and Mary (Vassall) Pres- 
cott; b. Halifax, N. S., 6 Jan. 1762; d. Great Barrington, 
Mass., 1852, being the last survivor of the original members 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4O3 

of the Mass. Society, of which he was Vice-President in 
1846-49. He was for a few years at school in Boston, then 
at New Haven, and subsequently at Esopus on the Hudson 
River. Entering the General Army Hospital as a student of 
Dr. Brown, he was at the age of seventeen appointed hospi- 
tal mate. He was in the action at Ticonderoga, and in 
Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in 1779; was com. 
surgeon's mate in 1 781, and served two years in Gen. Greene's 
army in the Carolinas. After the war he practised medicine 
in Halifax, N. S. 

His descent from John ' Prescott, of Boston and Watertown, 
1640, and Mary Platts, was through Capt. Jonathan,- h. Watertown, 
ab. 1643, d. 5 Dec. 1721, who m. (2d) Elizabeth, dau. of John 
Hoar of Concord, 23 Dec. 1675 ; Dr. Jonathan,^ b. 5 April, 1677, 
d. 28 Oct. 1729, who m. 9 July, 1701, Rebecca, dau. of Hon. Peter 
Bulkeley ; Jonathan,'^ b. 3 June, 1702, settled in Littleton; Dr. 
Jonathan^ (his father), b. 24 May, 1725, d. Halifax, N. S., Feb. 
1810, m. Mary, dau. of Hon. Wm. Vassall of Cambridge. 

Dr. Joseph m. Abigail, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Longfellow) 
Whidden of Halifax, N. S. They had — 

Charles Willum Eustis, b. 10 Feb. 1795, d. 12 April, 1849, 

who m. 13 Feb. 1816, Mary Arabella, dau. of Elisha Calkins 

of Liverpool, N. S. Their dau., Anna E., m. Hon. James M. 

Bullock of Shelbj'ville, Ky., and had Frederick Prescott (only 

child). 

FREDERICK PRESCOTT BULLOCK. 

Great-grandson of Dr. Joseph Prescott, whom he succ. in 
1877; b. Shelbyville, Ky., 11 April, 1849. His father, Hon. 
James M. Bullock, was a prominent lawyer, and was Secretary 
of State of Kentucky in 1852. Frederick Prescott served 
for nine months as a captain in the war of the Rebellion. 
After the war he was a writer for the press in the city of 
New York for a number of years. He is now living in 
Kansas City, Mo. 



404 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, LL.D. 

Grandson of Col. William, who commanded at the battle 
of Bunker Hill ; was admitted as an honorary member on 
4 July, 1845.* He was b. Salem, Mass., 4 May, 1796; d. 
Boston, Mass., 28 Jan. 1859. Historian. 

He was app. 2d lieut. Knox's artillery (afterward Crane's), 
I May, 1776; com. lieut. in the same, 12 Sept. 1778. He 
was retained in the service after his regiment was disbanded, 
and on i Jan. 1784, app. deputy commissary of ordnance and 
military stores at West Point, which position he held until 
relieved, 22 March, 1787. He d. West Point, N. Y., July, 
1790. He signed the roll of the Mass. Society, but never 
contributed his month's pay, and subsequently became a 
member of the N. Y. Society. 

He was b. Sutton, Mass., 9 April, 1738; d. Marietta, O., 
4 May, 1824. His father died when he was seven years of 
age, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandfather 
in Danvers. From 1747 to 1753 he lived with his step- 
father, Capt. John Sadler of Upton, who denied him all 
opportunity for instruction ; but by industry and perse- 
verance he acquired the rudiments of an education. He 
learned the trade of millwright, to which he was apprenticed 
in 1754, and was noted for strength and activity. During 
the French war he served as a private in Ebenezer Learned's 
Co. and also in Joseph Whitcomb's Co. of Ruggles's reg., 
and was present at the battle of Ticonderoga. He was or- 
derly sergeant of Page's Co., Ruggles's reg., in the campaign 
of 1759, in which Ticonderoga and Crown Point were taken 

* See annals of the Society, p. 60. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 405 

from the French; and in the campaign of 1760 he was 
ensign in Willard's reg. In 1761 he resumed his old oc- 
cupations of millwright and farmer, to which he added that 
of a surveyor. In 1765 he m. and settled in North Brook- 
field, where his family resided until 1 780, when he pur- 
chased a large farm in Rutland, Mass. He employed his 
leisure hours in the study of geometry, and soon became 
versed in practical surveying, in which he was engaged for 
some years in the neighboring towns. In 1772-73 he visited 
Florida as agent for " The Military Company of Adventur- 
ers," who, after his report of the exploration had been made, 
resolved to prosecute the settlement of their lands in that 
region, — an enterprise, however, which signally failed. 

On the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he was 
made lieut.-col. of David Brewer's reg., and at once set to 
work tracing out lines in front of Roxbury facing Boston, 
and in various places in the vicinity, particularly at Sewall's 
Point. He had never read a work on fortification, all his 
knowledge having been acquired by working under British 
engineers. Many of the defences of Roxbury, Dorchester, 
and Brookline were of his construction, and especially the 
fort on Cobble Hill. In December he went to Newport, 
R. I., where he planned a battery that commanded the har- 
bor, also a work at Howland's Ferry. When, in the winter 
of 1775-76, it was determined that Dorchester Heights 
should be fortified, the earth was, from the severity of the 
season, so deeply frozen as to prevent a lodgement being 
made in the usual way. " Providentially," as he considered 
it, in a book on field engineering, which he accidentally 
found at Gen. Heath's head-quarters, mention was made of 
" chandeliers." These were made of stout timbers ten feet 
long, into which were framed posts five feet high and five 
feet apart, placed on the ground in parallel lines, and the 
open spaces filled in with bundles of fascines, strongly 



406 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

picketed together; thus formuig a movable parapet of wood 
instead of earth. They were speedily prepared, silently 
placed in position on the night of 4 March, and on the 
morning of the 5th the British troops were astonished to 
see a formidable battery where, the evening before, no trace 
of a defence was to be seen. This was the immediate cause 
of the evacuation of Boston, which took place on the 17th; 
and on the 31st he was ordered to New York, taking Provi- 
dence and Newport on his way, where he assisted in the 
construction of additional defensive works. He reached 
New York about 20 April, and was immediately authorized, 
as chief engineer, to fortify New York, Long Island, Fort 
Lee, Fort Washington, Kingsbridge, etc. Com. by Congress 
colonel of engineers, 5 Aug. 1776, he rendered excellent 
service to the Commander-in-Chief in this department dur- 
ing the active campaign that followed, but resigned the post 
on being com. colonel of the 5th (Mass.) continental reg. in 
the following November. With this regiment he took an 
active part in the campaign against Burgoyne, especially in 
storming the German redoubt near the close of the battle of 
Saratoga, on 7 Oct. 1777. In this affair Col. Putnam com- 
manded the 5th and 6th Mass. regiments. The moment 
that orders were given to storm, he moved rapidly across 
an open field, under a murderous fire of grape and mus- 
ketry, and entered the works in front, at the -same moment 
that Learned's brigade, which contained Jackson's (8th) reg. 
led by Lieut. -Col. Brooks, entered on the left and rear. Col. 
Putnam then advanced into the wood toward the enemy's 
enclosed redoubts on their right flank, where he remained 
until toward morning, Gen. Learned having withdrawn ail the 
other troops without notifying Col. Putnam of his design, 
leaving him unprotected in the occupancy of the wood. 
After Burgoyne's surrender, Nixon's brigade, to which he 
was attached, went into winter quarters at Albany. In the 



CI^XIx^■ATI OF Massachusetts. 407 

following year he was engaged in laying out and construct- 
ing a chain of forts and redoubts at West Point, the principal 
of which, " Fort Putnam," was named for him. On 10 July, 
1779, he made a reconnoissance of Stony Point, his full and 
intelligent report of which service, made to Washington on 
the 14th, no doubt contributed greatly to the success of the 
attack on that post, which immediately followed. He was 
shortly afterward app. to the command of a reg. of light 
inf in Wayne's brigade. In May, 1780, he commanded an 
advanced detachment on Croton River, watching the move- 
ments of the enemy, whose light dragoons, under Tarleton 
Simcoe and De Lancey, had formerly inflicted severe losses 
on American detachments in this service. The constant 
watchfulness of Col. Putnam saved him from any disaster 
of this kind. He was also busily employed, as agent for 
his brother officers, in interceding with Congress and with 
the Legislature of Massachusetts for a redress of their griev- 
ances, especially their want of pay and clothing. He was 
com. brig.-gen. 7 Jan. 1783, and remained in the army till 
its final reduction in June following, when he joined his 
family in Rutland, Mass. In 1783 he joined with the other 
officers of the Northern States in petitioning Congress for 
a grant of land in the Western country, and, in a communi- 
cation addressed to Washington on the same subject, origi- 
nated the excellent system of laying out and surveying the 
public lands in townships of six miles square. In 1785 the 
Legislature of Massachusetts app. him on the committee 
for the sale of their Eastern lands, and also superintendent 
of the sur\-eys to be made, which duty he satisfactorily 
performed. On 10 Jan. 1786, Gens. Putnam and Tupper 
issued a public notice for the formation of " The Ohio Com- 
pany." In Jan, 1787, he joined Gen. Lincoln at Worcester 
as a volunteer aid, to suppress the Shaj-s insurrection ; and 
in May was chosen to represent Rutland in the General 



408 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Court. In Nov. 1787, he was app. superintendent of the 
affairs of the Ohio Company, relating to the settlement of 
their lands northwest of the river Ohio; and in April, 1788, 
began, with a party of forty emigrants, chiefly from Massa- 
chusetts, the settlement of Marietta, the first permanent 
white settlement in Ohio. In 1789 he was app. a Judge 
of the U. S. Court for the Northwest Territory; and in 
Nov. 1790, he removed his family to Marietta. He was 
app. a brig.-gen. in Wayne's army, 4 May, 1792. On 27 
Sept. 1793, he made a treaty of peace at Post Vincent, by 
which eight of the Wabash tribes were detached from the 
hostile Indians, thus lessening their strength. He resigned 
his commission in the following February. He was sur- 
veyor-general of the U. S. lands in 1796-1803; and was 
a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1803. 
In 1798 he was one of the founders of "Muskingum 
Academy," the first in the State; and in 1801 was app. 
one of the trustees of the Ohio University at Athens. 

His descent from Johii^ of Salem in 1634, who came from Aston 
Abbots, near Aylesbury, in County Bucks, England, d. 30 Dec. 1662, 
and wife Priscilla, was through Thomas,"^ b. England, 1618, d. 5 May, 
1686, freeman 1642, m. 17 Oct. 1643, Ann, dau. of Edward Holy- 
oke ; Edward^ bapt. 9 July, 1654, d. 1747, freeman 1690, m. 14 
June, 1681, Mary Holten ; Elisha* (his father), b. 3 Nov. 1685, d. 
June, 1745, m. Susannah, dau. of Jonathan Fuller of Danvers, and 
who was a cousin of Gen. Israel Putnam. 

Rufus m. in Jan. 1765, Persis, dau. of Zebulon Rice of Westbor- 
ough, Mass., by whom he had a large family of children. She d. in 
1820. His son, Edwin, b. Brookfield, 9 Jan. 1776 (Dick. Coll., Pa., 
1797), lawyer and judge in Ohio, d. Putnam. O., 17 July, 1843. 

2ri)0inas Bantrnll. 

He was an inhabitant of Boston before the war; d. city of 
New York, Jan. 1811 ; an officer of artillery at the siege of 
Boston, having entered the service April 24, 1775; com. ist 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4O9 

lieut. in Knox's artillery, i Jan. 1776; promoted to capt.- 
lieut. the same year, and resigned i May, 1779, at which date 
he held the rank of capt. in Crane's reg. He was stationed 
at Fort Stirling on Long Island, and was engaged in the 
battle of 27 Aug. 1776; was captured at PaoH while endeav- 
oring to bring off his guns, 22 Sept. 1777, when Wayne was 
surprised by Gen. Grey. While endeavoring to effect his 
escape on this occasion, he was knocked down and stabbed 
in eight places. He was shortly afterward wounded at Ger- 
mantown, and left for dead. He commanded a merchant- 
ship out of New York after the war, and was a partner with 
Major Samuel Shaw in the Canton trade. He joined the 
N. Y. Society in 1803. 

ScTjutl)aii Katosoii. 

Com. ensign in Vose's (ist) reg. 15 June, 1781 ; in 6th 
reg. in 1783; d. before 1812. 

(IStOKQt ISitaf). 

Com. ensign in Brooks's (7th) reg. ; com. lieut. 16 April, 
1780; transferred in 1783 to H. Jackson's (4th) reg.; also 
regiment and brigade quartermaster. He resided at Williams- 
town, Mass., some time prior to 1806, when he removed to 
Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., where he d. 20 June, 1838, 
ae. 84. He left JOSIAH and WiLLlAM H., of Salem, N. Y. 

STtmotljs MEmicI).* 

He was a sergt. in Fernald's Co. of Phinney's reg. in 1775 ; 
com. lieut. 13 Nov. 1776; capt. in Sprout's (12th) reg. 14 
Oct. 1780; brigade major, 14 May to i Dec. 1781 ; in Vose's 
(ist) reg. in 1782-83. He d. in 1784. 

* So written on the autograph list. His descend.ints of the last two genera- 
tions have changed the spelling to Remick. 



4IO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Some valuable books and papers which he left were de- 
stroyed by the great fire in Portland. 

His descent from Christian^ Remich, b. Holland, 1631, settled in 
Kittery 1651, and wife Hannah, was through yi;i-/i/<rt,- b. 24 July, 
1672, d. April, 1738, m. Anne Hepworth of Portsmouth, N. H. ; 
Isaac^ (his father), b. 14 Feb. 1707, m. (2d) Mary Pettegrew, 7 
June, 1753. 

Capt. Timothy m. Mercy Staples of Kittery. Children — 

Timothy, b. 30 Sept. 1775, d. 29 Nov. 1850. 

Simon, b. 26 Dec. 1777. 

Polly, b. 4 Nov. 1780. 

Rev. Timothy Remich, eldest son of Capt. Timothy, was 
elected a member in 1838, but failed to qualify. He settled 
at Cornish, Me., where he was ordained as pastor of the 
Baptist church in 1805, and continued to preach for thirty- 
five years. 

He m. Mary Chadbourne, b. 24 Sept. 1779, d. 5 July, 185 1. 
Children — 

James H. P., b. 17 April, 1800. 
Simon F., b. 17 May, 1802. 
Hannah T., b. 7 June, 1804. 
Royal C, b. i Jan. 1806. 
Hiram, b. 6 March, 1808. 
Timothy, b. 30 March, 1810. 
Royal C, b. 27 March, 181 2. 
Warren J., b. 15 Feb. 1814. 
William B., b. 20 July, 181 6. 
John C, b. 26 Dec. 1818. 
Adoniram J., b. I Feb. 1821. 
Noah J., b. 21 May, 1823. 
Mary J., b. 22 July, 1826. 

OTIS REMICK. 

Son of Hiram and Lydia Harris (Stackpole) Remick, and 
great-grandson of Major Timothy, whom he succ. in 1890; 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4 I I 

was b. Cornish, Me., 9 Aug. 1836, and received his education 
at the University of Wisconsin. On 17 April, 1861, he en- 
listed in Capt Fairchild's Co. 1st Wis. inf.; and soon after 
the expiration of the three months' term of service, he re- 
enlisted, 23 Sept. 1861, in Co. B of the iith Wis. inf, and 
was made 2d sergeant. He was promoted to be 1st lieut. 
15 Feb., 1862; capt. 23 Jan. 1863; major, nth Wis. vet. 
vol. inf, 26 July, 1865. He took part in the skirmish at 
Falling Waters, Va., 2 July, 1861 ; served with Gen. Curtis in 
Arkansas in 1862, in the Vicksburg campaign of 1863, and 
in Texas in 1863—64. In Feb. 1864, the colonel of the regi- 
ment offered a medal to the company in which the largest 
number of men re-enlisted as veterans. Capt. Remick's com- 
pany secured it by a unanimous re-enlistment. 

From I Sept. 1864, to I July, 1865, Capt. Remick was on 
staff duty at the headquarters of the Department of the Gulf 
in New Orleans, being in charge of all military permits for 
the shipment of goods outside of the Union lines. After 
trade restrictions were removed he was put in charge of the 
military police, the provost court records, and the sanitary 
inspection of the city. On 4 July, 1865, he reported at 
Montgomery, Ala., and was detailed to command the regi- 
ment which was assigned to provost guard duty at Mobile. 
The regiment was mustered out of service, 4 Sept. 1865, and 
Major Remick was ordered to take the muster rolls to Madi- 
son, Wis., where the men were paid off, 29 Sept. 1865. 

In Nov. 1865, he was appointed to a position in the Custom 
House at New Orleans; and he held various offices in the 
Customs Department, the State Land Office, and the Fost- 
Office from 1865 until 1879, when he went to Ann Arbor, 
Mich., and lived on a farm four years. In Oct. 1883, he re- 
moved to Colorado Springs, Col., on account of his wife's 
health, and now resides there. He is agent of the North- 
western Life Ins. Co. 



412 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. (ist) II Oct. 1865, Augusta Louisa, dau. of Hiram Hough- 
ton. She d. 22 March, 1884. They had — 
Sidney Houghton, b. Nov. 29, 1867. 
Nellie Augusta, b. Oct. 14, 1869. 
Harry Otis, d. young. 
He m. (2d) 30 Sept. 1886, Ella J., dau. of Isaac Stackpole. 

Kati)an Mitt. 

He was the son of Rev. Caleb Rice ; was b. Sturbridge, 
Mass., 2 Aug. 1754; d. Burlington, Vt, 17 April, 1834; 
H. U. 1773. When the Revolutionary war broke out, he 
was a law student in the office of John Adams. He served 
as lieut. and adj. in Greaton's (24th) reg. at the siege of 
Boston ; was aide to Gen. Lincoln, with the rank of major, 
7 May, 1777-31 Dec. 1780; brigade inspector, Aug.-Dec. 
1780; was attached to Scammell's light inf. reg. at the siege 
of Yorktown, and commanded the regiment after the death 
of that officer. Com. lieut. -col. during the giiast war with 
France, in 1 798-1 800, and stationed at Oxford, Mass. He 
resided in Hingham, Mass., and afterward in Burlington, Vt. 
Col. Rice was prompt in the discharge of his official duties, 
and highly esteemed for his noble bearing and genial social 
qualities. 

His descent from Edmund'^ Rice, b. England ab. 1594, settled at 
Sudbury 1639, d. Marlborough, 3 May, 1663, was through Joseph"^ 
and Martha, who d. 4 Jan. 1668-69 ; Cakb^ b. 19 May, 1666, d. 5 
Jan. 1738-39, who m. 21 May, 1696, Mary Ward of Marlborough; 
Rev. Caleb" (his father), b. 13 Dec. 1712, H. U. 1730, first minister 
of Sturbridge, Mass., from 29 Sept. 1736, to his death, 2 Sept. 1759, 
who m. Priscilla Payson. 

Nathan m. (ist) 12 Feb. 1781, Mariel Leavitt, who d. Hingham, 7 
Jan. 1790; (2d) 16 Jan. 1791, Sophia, dau. of Joseph Blake. She 
d. Jan. 1 814, se. 52. Children — 

Charles, b. 28 Nov. 1781, d. 17 .^ug. 1799. 

Sally, bapt. 21 Sept. 1783, m. John Paine. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHL'SETIS. 4I3 

Caleb, b. 5 Dec. 17S4, H. U. 1803, d. Hingham, unm., 1.549. 
Priscill.*, II June, 1786, m. Alvan Foote of Burlington, Vt., d. 

there 5 Sept. 1841. 
Mariel, b. 13 July, 1788, d. unm. 23 June, 1837. 
Nathan. 

JOHX Blake, 25 March, 1792, d. Hingham, 9 Dec. 1795. 
SoPHLA Bl.\k.e, b. 12 Feb. 1797, ra. Dr. Gamaliel Bradford. 

NATHAN RICE. 

Third son of Col. Nathan, whom he succ. in 1849; b. Hing- 
ham, Mass., 27 Dec. 1789; d. Jacksonville, Fla., while on a 
journey for his health, 5 March, 1852. He resided at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., and was many years a partner in the mercantile 
house of Rice & Thaxter, Boston. 

He m. at Boston, 27 May, 181 7, Elizabeth N., dau. of Dr. Levi 
Lincoln, who d. at Hingham, Mass., 3 Oct. 1848, se. 52. Children — 
Elizabeth L., b. 13 May, 181 8. 
Caroline P., b. 27 Sept. 1820, m. 27 May, 1844, Rev. J. F. W. 

Ware, d. 18 Sept. 1848. 
Helen W., b. 21 Sept. 1822, m. 10 Oct. 1850, Rev. J. F. \V. Ware. 
Charles Leavitt, b. 6 Oct. 1825, d. ae. 6 months. 

N.ATHAN P.AYSON. 

Sophla. Thaxter, b. 8 July, 1832, m. 10 Oct. 1855, Wm. H. Gor- 

ham, d. Exeter, N. H., Sept. 1859. 
Benjamin Thaxter, b. 7 Feb. 1839. 

NATHAN PAYSON RICE, iM.D. 

Eldest son of Nathan, whom he succ. in 1852; b. Boston, 
Mass., 26 May, 1829; H. U. 1849; received his medical de- 
gree in 1853; member of the Mass. Medical Society; prac- 
tised medicine in New York City to the commencement of the 
civil war ; was examiner of recruits for 2d N. Y. cavalry, May, 
1861 ; surgeon i8thN. Y. inf. 19 Aug. 1861-22 May, 1863, with 
army of the Potomac ; app. assist.-surgeon U. S. vols., 7 Aug. 
1863; surgeon U. S. vols., 2 Sept. 1863; acting medical in- 



414 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

spector Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, 31 Aug. 1863- 
30 April, 1864; surgeon-in-chief, exterior line defences, 30 
April, 1864-30 June, 1864; surgeon in charge of Hammond 
General Hospital, Beaufort, N. C, 30 June, 1 864-22 Feb. 1 865 ; 
surgeon in charge ist separate brigade of Maryland, 22 Feb. 
1865, to close of service, 17 Aug. 1865; brevetted lieut.- 
col. 15 Aug. 1865. Owing to injury received in service, he 
was unable to resume the practice of his profession. He 
lived for several years in Georgia and at New Orleans, en- 
gaged in business. Subsequently he received an appoint- 
ment in the N. Y. Custom-house, which he held for fifteen 
years. Unm. He was admitted to the N. Y. Society, being 
a resident of that State, 4 July, i860. 

©Hbrr Mitt. 

He was b. Sudbury, Mass., 26 July, 1752; was the son of 
William and Mary (Estabrook) Rice, and was a descendant 
of Edmund Rice of Sudbury. Ensign in Wesson's (9th) 
reg. 1777; com. lieut. 5 Sept. 1781, in H. Jackson's reg. ; 
in the 4th reg. in 1783. He m. ab. 1785 Abigail Willard of 
Walpole, N. H., where he kept a store; but losing both his 
wife and a dau., he removed to Ohio, and settled in 1789 in 
Belpre, which he assisted in surveying and laying out. 

^biiaii Micljartjson, Itt.lB. 

He was b. East Medway, Mass., 30 Aug. 1752; d. Med- 
way, 10 May, 1822. He studied at H. U. in 1770-72 ; entered 
the Revolutionary army as mate to Dr. Samuel Whitwell, sur- 
geon in Greaton's (3d) reg. in 1775, and was surgeon from 
6 Nov. 1776, to I Jan. 1781, in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. On 
June I, 1779, he was captured at Fort La Fayette, on the 
Hudson River, near Stony Point, and was some time a pris- 
oner on Long Island. During his imprisonment his sister 
Mrs, Cutler, whose husband was a Tory, ministered to his 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 415 

wants and relieved his necessities. He afterward settled in 
his native town, where he was eminent as a physician and 
also as a botanist, and where he educated many young men 
for the medical profession. In 1787 he was again called into 
the service of his countrj', to aid in the suppression of Shays's 
rebellion. 

He m. Mary Daniels, who d. March, 1854, se. 98. Children — 
Betsey, b. 2 April, 1773, m. Capt. Lewis Wheeler of Medway. 
Joseph, b. 24 April, 1775, d. i Nov. 1825, m. .\nna,dau. of Oliver 

Adams. 
Abijah, b. 21 Nov. I 781, m. Olive, dau. of Dr. Pond. 
Mercy, b. 2 May, 1783, m. John Stedman. 
Ch.\rlotte, b. 28 July, 1785, d. 5 Oct. 1795. 
Abigail, b. 31 July, 1787, m. (ist) Asa Thayer, (2d) Zech. Lovell. 
^LvRV, b. 20 March, 1789, unm. 
Eliza, b. 2 July, 1791, m. Sylvanus Adams. 
Tryphena, b. 9 June, 1 794, m. J. P. Leland of Sherbom. 
Jeremlah Daniels, b. 1796, m. Laurena Beal. 

HORACE RICHARDSON 

Son of Joseph and grandson of Abijah, whom he succ. in 
1845; b. Medway, 23 Sept. 1795; d 25 Dec. 1856. He 
was a member of the Mass. Legislature in 1844 and 1846. 

He m. Catherine Draper, and had — 

George Draper. 

Joseph, b. 24 Ma)% 1828, m. Sylvia E. Butler, and has no children. 

Hor.\ce Robbins, b 18 Dec. 1830, m. Hannah Daniels, and has 

two children — Horace and Louise. 
E.M^Li Catherine, b. 25 Nov. 1841, m. Lewis Prentiss, and has 

no children. 

GEORGE DRAPER RICHARDSON. 

Eldest son of Horace, whom he succ in 1857; b. Medway. 
18 Sept. 1823; resides in Stoneham. Mass. 



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asatlliam SicfearTi. 

He was b. Massachusetts, and d. Nashville, Tenn., in Jan. 
1813. Promoted from sergt. to ensign in H. Jackson's (i6th) 
reg. 24 April, 1779; com. lieut. 9th rcg. 14 April, 1782. He 
was a merchant at Wilmington, N. C, in 1784-90; capt. in 
the U. S. army, 1 794-1800. 

He was b. Duxbury, Mass., 29 Nov. 1751 ; d. 18 Oct. 1 841, 
at Kingston, Mass., whither his family removed in 1759. 
He was com. ist lieut. in Bailey's (2d) reg. i Jan. 1777; 
lieut. and adj. in 1780; brigade quartermaster Paterson's 
(2d) brigade, 1783. 

Son of Capt. Hezekiah and Abigail (Hunt) Robbins. He m. 13 

Jan. 1785, Hannah Tilden. Children — 
Joseph Tilden. 

RuFUS, b. 9 Aug. 1787, d. at sea, 10 Nov. 1810. 
Marcia, b. 21 May, 1790, m. Charles Otis, 10 Jan. 1816, d. 

Mason, N. H., 22 Nov. 1848. 
Kenelm, 28 Feb. 1792, m. Lydia Otis, 7 May, 1823, d. at sea, 

24 Dec. 1830. 
George, b. 2 March, t 794, d. New York, 2 April, 1S48. 
Lucia, b. 4 Nov. 1800, m. N. B. Robbins, 22 Dec. 1830, d. 

Cincinnati, O., 23 July, 1867. 
William, b. 21 April, 1803, m. Mary A. Fisher, April, 1837, d. 

Boston, 4 .'\pril, 1842. 
Harvey, b. 15 Feb. 1807, m. Catherine Riggerson, 5 Feb. 1844, 

d. Sonora Co., Cal., 27 Aug. 1857. 

JOSEPH TILDEN RIPLEY. 

Eldest son of Hezekiah, whom he succ. in 1843 ; b 9 Oct. 
1785; d. Kingston, Mass., 27 Feb 1856. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 417 

NATHAN BACON ROBBINS, JR. 

Grandson of Hezekiah Ripley, and son of Capt. N. B. 
Robbins ; succ. Joseph Tilden Ripley (his uncle) in 1858; 
b. Plymouth, Mass., 31 July, 1831 ; accidentally drowned at 
Rochester, Minn., i July, 1859; Williams College, 1856; a 
lawyer of Rochester, and a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of Minnesota. 

KEXELM ROBBINS 

Grandson of Hezekiah Ripley, and brother of N. B. Rob- 
bins, Jr., whom he succ. in 1863 ; b. Plymouth, Mass., in May, 
1839; graduated at West Point, 1863; app. 2d lieut. 5th 
cavalry, 11 June; brevetted 1st lieut. for gallantry at Brandy 
Station, Va., i Aug. 1863; ist lieut. 12 June, 1864; severely 
wounded at Opequan, 19 Sept. 1864, and brevetted capt.; 
capt. 4th inf. 22 Jan. 1867; d. Jackson, Miss., 28 Feb. 1870. 

CHARLES OTIS LAWTON. 

Great-grandson of Hezekiah Ripley and grandson of 
Charles T. and Marcia (Ripley) Otis, succ. Kenelm Robbins 
in 1879. He was b. Leominster, Mass., 24 April, 1857. He 
resides in Boston, and carries on business as a jeweller in 
New York. 

He m. 1 2 .A.ug. 18S5, Annie Exton, dau. of Samuel Sitgreaves Collier. 

Mitljarli ISroobe Xloticrtsi. 

He was a capt. of South Carolina artillery ; was aide to 
Gen. Lincoln in 1782; app. capt. 2d U. S. inf 4 March, 
1791 ; major 3d sub. legion, 28 Feb. 1793 ; d. 19 Jan. 1797. 

Of Wrentham ; d. there Alarch, 1787, leaving a son, 
Oliver, of Roxbury. Com. lieut. in Putnam's (5th) reg. i 
Jan. 1777; afterward promoted to capt. 
27 



41 8 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Joi^n Mo\ot. 

He was b. Gloucester, Mass., 1755; d. Lisbon, Me., Nov. 
1 8 16. He enlisted as a private in his father's company, 
fought at Bunker Hill and in many important battles, and 
continued in service to the end of the war, having been com. 
ensign in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. 15 June, 1781. He com- 
manded a company in quelling Shays's insurrection, and was 
a skilful and courageous officer. His widow, Lydia, b. 1753, 
was living in Northfield in 1836. 

His descent from /o/ui^ Rome, who settled in Gloucester in 165 i, 
d. 9 March, 1662, and wife Bridget, was through /(Vi/;,^ d. 25 Sept. 
1 700, who m. 27 Sept. 1663, Mary Dickerson ; Stephen^ 1675, ''• 
28 April, 1731, who m. in 1699 Martha Low; John* b. 1714, 
settled at Sandy Bay, and m. Mary Baker in 1 736 ; John ^ (his 
father), b. 1737, d. ab. 1800, who m. Sarah Pool. 

(ifrocUtr Samp.Qon. 

He was b. Kingston, Mass., 25 April, 1749; d. there 7 
July, 1823; H. U. 1771. Com. 2d lieut. in Bradford's (14th) 
reg. 31 Jan. 1777; ist lieut. and quartermaster, 13 April, 
1780; in Brooks's (7th) reg. 1782-83. He settled in Kingston 
after the war. 

His descent from Henry"^ Sampson, one of the " ALayflower " 
Pilgrims, freeman of Plymouth 1637, an early setder of Duxbury, 
who d. 24 Dec. 1684, was through Stephen,^ who d. i 714-15, and 
wife Elizabeth; Benjamin," b. 1686, d. 19 April, 1758, settled in 
Kingston, Mass., and ra. 19 M .rch, i 716, Rebecca, dau. of Jacob and 
Lydia Cook; Cornelias* (his father), b. ab. 1724, d. March, 1796, 
who m. 1747, Desire, dau. of Benjamin Crocker of Barnstable. 

He m. 1 794, Rebecca Hawley, who d. 27 June, 1844. Children — 

Benj.^min, b. 19 Aug. 1795, d. unm. 22 Oct. 1832. 

H.\RRIET, b. 7 Aug. 1797, m. (ist) Charles Fisk, (2d) Charles 
Adams. 

Rebecca, b. 4 Nov. 1 799, m. Crocker of Barnstable. 

Lucy, b. 18 Aug. 1801, m. Hobson. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 4I9 

saacnttjrop Sarflcnt. 

He was b. Gloucester, Mass., i May, 1753 ; d. New Orleans, 
3 June, 1820; H. U. 1771. At the beginning of the war he 
was capt. of one of his father's ships, but entered the army 
as a lieut. of artillery, 7 July, 1775 ; was com. capt.-lieut. in 
Knox's artillery, i Jan. 1776; capt. in Crane's artillery, i Jan. 
1777. He was present at the siege of Boston, battles of 
Harlem (15 Sept. 1776), Trenton (in Glover's brigade), 
Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth ; and at the close 
of the war was aide to Gen. Robert Howe. By a resolution 
of Congress he was promoted (28 Aug. 1783) to the rank of 
major by brevet in the army of the United States. In 1786 
he was app. Surveyor of the Northwestern Territory, and sub- 
sequently Secretary to the Territorial Government. When 
the military expedition against the Indians was organized by 
St Clair, Sargent was app. adj. -gen. of the army, and was 
seriously wounded in the battle of 4 Nov. 1791. Chief- 
Justice Marshall, in his " Life of Washington," says : — 

" In this disastrous battle the loss on the part of the Americans 
was very great when compared with the number of men engaged. 
Thirty-eight commissioned officers were killed on the field, and 
593 non-commissioned officers and privates were slain and missing- 
... At the head of the list of wounded were Lieut.-Cols. Gibson 
and Darke, Major Butler and Adj. -Gen. Sargent, all of whom were 
veteran officers of great merit, who displayed their accustomed 
bravery on this unfortunate day." 

Gen. St. Clair, in his account of the battle, said: "To 
many of my officers I am under great obligations, but to 
none more than to Col. Sargent." He was reappointed 
adj. -gen. under Wayne, but declined. In 1798 he was ap- 
pointed by Pres. Adams, Governor of the Mississippi Terri- 
tory; but was removed by Jefferson, in 1801, on account of 
his political opinions. He was a Federalist of the most pro- 



420 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

nounced type. He finally became a planter, and resided a 
few miles from Natchez. Having amassed a handsome estate, 
he decided to remove to Philadelphia, but was unable to 
proceed farther than New Orleans, where he died of gout. 

His descent from William^ of Exeter, Eng., who m. Mary Epes, 
was through William^ b. Exeter, Eng., came to Gloucester previous 
to 1678, d. before June, 1707, who m. 21 June, 1677, Mary, dau. 
of Peter Duncan; Col. Epes,^ h. 12 July, 1690, d. 6 Dec. 1762, 
who m. I April, 1720, Esther, dau. of Florence and Christian Ma- 
carty; U'iiithrop^ (his father), b. 6 March, 1727, d. 3 Dec. 1793, 
who m. Judith, dau. of Thomas and Judith Saunders, 5 April, 1750. 

By his 2d wife, Mary Williams, widow, nee Mackintosh, m. 24 
Oct. 1798, he had — 

William Fitz Winthrop, b. Natchez, 6 Dec. 1799, H. U. 181 7, 
d. Philadelphia, Oct. 1822. 

George Washington. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON SARGENT. 

He was the son of Winthrop, whom he succ. in 1835; b. 
at Gloster Place, near Natchez, 2 July, 1802; H. U. 1820; 
was shot in his house, 10 May, 1864, by robbers disguised 
as soldiers, and d. on the 13th. The robbers were soon 
afterward convicted and executed. Mr. Sargent appears to 
have become a member of the Pa. Society in 1839. 

He m. 7 Dec. 1824, Margaret J. Percy (b. London, Eng., 4 June, 
1802). Children — 

Winthrop, b. 23 Sept. 1825, d. Paris, 18 May, 1S70. He m. 
Sarah Ellery, dau. of Ignatius Sargent, and had one son, Igna- 
tius, b. 18 April, 1852. 

Robert Percy, b. 7 May, 1827. 

Mary, b. 21 Jan. 1829. 

George, b. 5 March, 1831. 

Jane Percy, b. 25 Aug. 1833. 

Annie, b. 4 Jan. 1837. d. 5 Dec. 1S41. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 42 1 



IGNATIUS SARGENT. 

Son of Winthrop, grandson of George Washington, and 
great-grandson of Col. Winthrop; adni. 1888; was b. in 
Philadelphia, Pa., 18 April, 1852. Educated in Boston and 
Brattleborough, Vt. Resides in Waquoit, Falmouth, Mass. 

He m. 30 .'\pril, 1885, Annie E., dau. of Wm. Childs. They 
have — 

Winthrop W. Sargent, b. 16 Oct. 1887. 

212aiUiam Satteclcf. 

He was b. Flainficld, Ct., 10 Jan. 1740 or 1741 ; d. Norway, 
N. Y., 6 Dec. 1798. He served with credit in the French and 
Indian war; was with Arnold in the attack on Quebec, 1775 ; 
senior capt. in Hazen's reg. 1777. At the battle of Monmouth, 
where he was severely wounded, he held the rank of brigade 
major. He was retained in the army for a time after the close 
of the war, aTid was com. as major in 1784. On retiring from 
the service he lived at Williamstown, Mass., for a time ; after- 
ward he settled at Fairfield Township, Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
His life was shortened by the wound he received at 
Monmouth. 

He was a descendant of Capt. Benedict Satterlee of the 
English navy, b. at St. Ide, near E.xeter, Eng., in 1655, who 
resigned his commission in the navy to marry a daughter of 
James Bemis of New London, Ct., to which place he emigrated 
and settled in 1689. 

Major Satterlee's father, Benedict Satterlee, was b. at New 
London, Ct, 11 Aug. 1714. He served as a lieut. in the 
French and Indian war, and was one of the first settlers of 
Wyoming, Pa. When the Revolutionary war began he was 
too old for active service in the field, but he took part in the 



42 2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

defence of the Wyoming valley, and was killed in the mas- 
sacre which took place on 3 and 4 July, 1778. 

Major Satterlee m. Hannah, dau. of Isaac Sherwood of 
Norwalk, Ct. They had nine children : the eldest, William, b. 
WiUiamstown, Mass., 12 April, 1775 ; the youngest, RiCHARD, 
S., b. Fairfield, N. Y., 6 Dec. 1798, d. city of New York, 10 
Nov. 1880. Richard S. entered the army as a surgeon, 25 
Feb. 1822, and was stationed for fifteen years in the Indian 
country. He became widely known as a zealous promoter 
of missionary work among the Indians. At the opening of 
the Florida war he accompanied the troops to Tampa Bay, 
and was made medical director of the staff of Gen. Zachary 
Taylor. He served with Gen. Scott in the Cherokee cam- 
paign, and was afterward stationed on the frontier, where he 
reniained until 1846. In the Mexican war he was appointed 
medical director of the army under Gen. Scott, and accom- 
panied the troops from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. 
He was a survivor of the wrecked troop-ship " San Francisco," 
in Dec. 1852. Afterward he was appointed chief medical 
purveyor of the army, and stationed at New York, He served 
with distinction during the war of the Rebellion, and on 2 
Sept. 1864, he received the brevet rank of brigadier-general. 
He was in active service over half a century. From the be- 
ginning of Major Satterlee's service in the French and Indian 
war to the death of his son, a period of nearly 120 years 
elapsed. 

Geo. A. Satterlee, a member of the bar, and a citizen of 
San Francisco, Cal., applied for admission in 1880 as the 
legal representative of Capt. Wm. Satterlee. 

He was com. lieut. and adj. in Greaton's (3d) reg. Ii Nov. 
1777 ; d. before 181 2. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 423 

He was the son of Samuel Phillips Savage, a merchant of 
Boston, afterward a judge of C. C. P. of Middlesex Co. ; was 
b. Boston, 13 June, 1756, and d. Berwick, Me., 20 Jan. 1814. 
He entered the army in April, 1775; was com. 2d lieut. in 
Furnival's Co. of Knox's artillery reg. 26 March, 1776; 1st 
lieut. Crane's reg. 1777; com. capt. 20 Sept. 1779; and re- 
signed his com. of capt. in the 1st reg. U. S. artillery, 26 Oct. 
1791, after a service of sixteen years and six months. 

He m. 16 Dec. 1793, Catharine Hubbard. Children — 
Charles Ty'ler ; Samuel Phillips ; and several daughters. 

CHARLES TYLER SAVAGE. 

Eldest son of Capt. Joseph, whom he succ. in 1822; was 
b. Berwick, Me., 15 March, 1797; d. Harvard, Mass., 5 Nov. 
1879. He went to sea at the age of twelve, and was for many 
years captain of a vessel. 

He m. 20 Sept. 1821, Anna Lewis Thacher. Children — 
William Henry, b. 22 Nov. 1831. 
James Dabney, 13 Sept.* 1833. 

WILLIAM HENRY SAVAGE. 

Eldest son of Charles Tyler, whom he succ. in 1881 ; was b. 
Weston, Mass., 22 Nov. 183 1. He enlisted in the 15th Mass. 
vols, soon after the war of the Rebellion broke out, and served 
for three years. He was seriously wounded at the battle 
of Gettysburg, 3 July, 1863, and is now in receipt of a pen- 
sion on that account. Having recovered in a measure from 
his wound, and there being an urgent call for men, he re- 
enlisted 27 Feb. 1865, in the ist U.S. artillery, Co. C. After 
the war he was placed on recruiting service, and at the end 



424 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of his term of enlistment recei\'ed an honorable discharge, 27 
Feb. 1868. He is a farmer, and resides in Harvard, Mass. 

He m. 25 Sept. 1856, Annie Wentworth, dau. of Henry S. 
Thacher. Children — 

Walter Irvine, b. July, 1857; d. 
Frederick S., b. 20 Nov. 1858. 
Elizabeth Thacher, b. 4 Feb. 1861. 
Charles Tyler, b. 25 Sept. 1865. 
Paul Roberts, b. 6 Dec. 186S ; d. 
Parker Thacher, b. 20 Feb. 1870 ; d. 
Joseph S., b. 20 Nov. 1S71. 
Lucy Thacher, b. 28 June, 1873. 
Annie Wentworth, b. 28 Sept. 1874; d. 
Helen Otis, b. 24 Oct. 1877. 

James Satoncr. 

He was b. at Burlington, Vt., in 1761 ; d. there 27 March, 
1827, se. 66. He was present with his father at Bunker Hill 
when only fourteen years of age, and was also at Saratoga at 
the surrender of Burgoyne ; was com. ensign in Michael Jack- 
son's (8th) reg. 22 July, 178 1, and was in Col. Hamilton's light 
infantry at the storming of the redoubt at Yorktown and sur- 
render of Cornwallis. At the close of the war he returned to 
Burlington, was colonel of Vermont militia, and for many 
years Sheriff of Chittenden County. 

He was a descendant of T/uuiuis Scricycr,^ b. Cambridgeshire, or 
Norfolk, Eng., 1615, d. Lancaster, Mass., 12 Sept. 1706, who m. 
about 1646, Mary, dau. of John Prescott, the first permanent settler 
at Lancaster, and removed from Charlestown to Lancaster about 
1653 ; Thomasf b. 6 July, 1647, d. i 736 (he and his son Elias, then 
sixteen years of age, and a man named John Biglo were captured 
by Indians in 1 705 and carried to Canada. Thomas, who was a 
man of great courage and resources, obtained the ransom of the 
whole party by building a saw-mill, — the first one, it is said, built in 
Canada) ; Nathaniii^\^. 24 Nov. 1670; F.[<hraun*'\s:i^ in the ser- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 425 

vice of King George II., and was with Sir James Abercrombie when, 
in July, 1758, he stormed Ticonderoga, and was repulsed with heavy 
loss; Ephrailir^ (iiit\\er of Ensign James), b. 1719, was a lieut. 
under Sir J. Amherst at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown 
Point, in 1759, and the conquest of Canada. At the outbreak of 
the war of the Revolution he raised a company of minute-men ; was 
major in Col. Asa Whitcomb's reg. at the battle of Bunker Hill ; 
and lieut.-colonel in the campaign against Burgoyne. He had four 
sons besides Ensign James who took part in the war of the Revolu- 
tion ; namely, Capt. Ephraim, Lieut. John, Ensign Josiah, and Pri- 
vate Peter. 

Ensign James m. 1 790, Lydia Foster, who d. Burlington, Vt., 
2 Sept. 1852. They had — 
James Lucius (who was admitted to the Cincinnati Society but 
failed to quahfy), b. 1791 ; U. of Vt. 1806; cadet U. S. A. 
1808 ; major and aide to Maj.-Gen. Strong at Plattsburg, 1814 ; 
admitted to the bar, 1813 ; d. New York, 1850, leaving two 
daughters 
Frederick Augustus, b. 9 Sept. 1792, U. of Vt., d. 28 April, 1831, 
unm. He was lieut. in the nth U. S. inf, and served through 
the war of 1812; was present at Chrystler's Fields, 11 Nov. 
1813; Chippewa, 5 July, 1814; Bridgewater, 25 July, 1814, 
and siege of Fort Erie from 30 July to 17 Sept. 18 14. 
M.^RCIA, d. in infancy. 
Horace Bucklin. 

George Foster, b. 25 April, 1798, d. 24 June, 1852 ; app. purser 
U. S. navy; served through the Mexican war, and was in the 
" John .'\dams " at Vera Cruz. Married; no children. 
Gamaliel Bradford, b. 25 March, 1801, d. 10 July, 1868, U. 

of Vt., counsellor at law, unm. 
Edmund Prior, d. in infancy. 
Mary Curtis, b. 19 July, 1804, d. 23 Aug. 1865, Burlington, Vt., 

unm. 
Maria, b. 28 April, 181 1, d. 16 Oct. 1845, m. Charles P. Allen. 

HORACE BUCKLIN SAWYER. 

He was eldest surviving son of Ensign James, whom he 
succ. in 1852; b. Burlington, 22 Feb. 1797; d. Washington, 



426 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

D. C, 14 Feb. i860. App. midshipman U. S. navy, 4 June, 
1812; lieut., I April, 1818; commander, 9 Dec. 1839; capt., 
12 April, 1853. 

During the war of 18 12 he participated in several engage- 
ments; was taken prisoner on Lake Champlain, and confined 
as a hostage at Halifax for nearly a year; was in the frigate 
" Constitution" (Old Ironsides), when she captured H. B. M. 
ships " Cyane " and "Levant," and for " good conduct" dur- 
ing this fight was presented with a sword by his native State, 
Vermont. 

He m. in 1826 (ist) Louisa Shaler of Connecticut, who d. in 
1828, s. p.; (2d) 29 Oct. 1833, Roxalana Wadsworth, a descend- 
ant of Capt. Wadsworth of Charter Oak fame^ Children — 

Mary Louisa, b. 8 Oct. 1834, m. 8 May, 1861, Peter F. Bel- 
linger of Herkimer Co., N. Y., and has six children. 

George Augustus. 

Emilie, b. 23 Dec. 1842, Baltimore, Md., m. Chief Engineer 
John W. Moore, U. S. navy (member of the Society of Cin- 
cinnati), and has five children. 

James Estcourt, b. Washington, D. C, 3 July, 1846, ist lieut. 
5th U. S. artillery, m. 4 June, 1873, Elizabeth O. Thompson of 
New York, and has two children. 

Augusta Maria, b. Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., at U. S. Navy Yard, 
16 Jan. 1851, d. Boston, Mass., 1866. 

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SAWYER. 

Eldest son of Horace B., whom he succ. in 1862; b. Bur- 
lington, Vt., 9 March, 1839; LLB., Columbian University; 
admitted to the bar, 1878; Paymaster U. S. navy, and served 
through the war of the Rebellion. Including George A., 
five generations of this family in direct descent, and many, 
collateral representatives, have been in the military or naval 
service of this country. 

He m. 26 Oct. 1865, Florence H. Brown, of Portland, Me., and 
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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 427 

Philip L. H., b. 7 July, 1868 (student in engineering and archi- 
tecture, Columbia College, N. Y., 1S90). 
Raymond Estcourt, b. 15 Aug. 1874. 



<Samu0l ILcslie Stammrll. 

He was the son of Dr. .Samuel of Mendon, afterward of 
Bellingham, Mass., and brother of Col. Alexander Scammell; 
was com. ensign in Smith's (13th) reg. 30 Aug. 1781 ; in the 
6th reg. in 1782-83. D. before 18 12. 

SJamts Scott. 

He was com. ensign, 14 Dec. 1781 ; in Brooks's (7th) reg. 
in 1783. 

etijaclcs Srlticn. 

He entered the army from Lyme, Ct., in 1777; was com. 
lieut. in H.Jackson's (i6th) reg. in March, 1778, and served 
in his regiment through the war, during which he was badly 
wounded in the hip at the assault and capture of Stony Point. 
He was after the war Senator of the eastern district of New 
York, was a Regent of the State University, and d. at Troy, 
N. Y., I Jan. 1820, se. 64. 

SJamcs Stijec. 

James, son of William and .Sarah (Warren) Sever; b. 
Kingston, Mass., 2 Nov. 1761 ; d. there 16 Dec. 1845. His 
mother, b. Plymouth, 13 May, 1730, was the daughter of 
James and Penelope (Winslow) Warren, both lineal de- 
scendants of Edward Winslow and Richard Warren of the 
"Mayflower." He grad. H. U. 1781, and having been com- 
missioned ensign in Brooks's (7th) Mass. reg. i Feb. 1781, 
immediately joined the Revolutionary army, in which he 
continued until its disbandmcnt in 1783. 



428 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

In 1798 he was app. by Pres. Adams one of the first 
six post-captains in the U. S. navy. He superintended the 
building of the frigate "Congress" at Portsmouth, N. H., 
and was afterward her commander, but retired from the navy 
in 1 80 1, and settled at Kingston. Vice-Pres. of the iViASS. 
Society of the Cincinnati in 1839-45 ; President in 1845. 

His descent from Robert"^ Scaver, b. Eng. ab. 1608, who came to 
New England, settled in Roxbury in 1634, and d. there 13 May, 16S3, 
and his wife Elizabeth Ballard, was through Cakh^\). 30 Aug. 1641, 
d. 6 March, 17 13, who m. 15 Dec. 16 71, Sarah Ingoldsby., who d. 31 
Jan. 1708; Nicholas^ \>. 15 April, 1680, d. 7 April, 1764, H. U. 
1 701, minister of First Church, Dover, N. H. 1711-15, who removed 
to Kingston, Mass., in 1728, and m. 21 Nov. 1728, Sarah (Warren) 
Little, dau. of James Warren; William^ (his father), b. 12 Oct. 
1729, d. 15 June, 1809, who m. 2 Dec. 1755, Sarah Warren. 

Feb. 22, 1796, he m. Jane Russell of Plymouth, by whom he had 
five children — 

James Warren. 

Thomas Russell, b. 28 Oct. 1798, d. at sea, 15 Sept. 1S36. 

Jane Russell, b. 13 Jan. 1802, d. 7 Dec. 1876. 

Elizabeth Parsons, b. 5 June, 1803, d. 22 May, 1876. 

Sarah Ann Warren, b. 20 July, 1805, d. 8 May, 1886. 

JAMES WARREN SEVER. 

Son of Capt. James, whom he succ. in 1847; b. Kingston, 
Mass., I July, 1797; d. Boston, 16 Jan. 187 1. He entered 
Dummer Academy in 1811, and grad. H. U. 1817, where 
his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had also 
graduated. 

While a student of law in the office of Gov. Levi Lincoln 
in Worcester, in 1S20, he delivered the 4th of July oration 
at Leicester, his subject being " The Era of Good Feeling." 
In October of that year he entered the merchant marine 
service in the employ of the Messrs. Perkins of Boston, 
making his first voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 429 

continuing in the service of this house and commanding an 
East Indiaman until 1835. He commanded the "Alert," 
the first ship that ever entered the Canton River without 
issuing the usual rations of ardent spirits to officers and 
men, — an experiment which was entirely successful. On 
quitting the sea, he settled in Boston, and was a member of 
the Common Council in 1850 and 185 1. In 1853 and again 
in 1856 he was a member of the House of Representatives, 
and was Chairman of the Committee of Finance during both 
terms. 

He early evinced a fondness for military life, having while 
at college commanded the Harvard Washington Co., an or- 
ganization composed of the students, with whom he per- 
formed escort duty on the occasion of the visit of Pres. 
Monroe in 18 17. He received from the President in 181 8 
an appointment to a cadetship at West Point, which he 
declined. In 1844 he was adj. of the Independent Cadets, 
of which corps he was lieut.-col. commanding in 1849 and 
1850. He was ASSIST. Sec. of the Mass. Society of the 
Cincinnati, 1851-59; Secretary, 1859-65; Vice-Pres., 
1865; President, 1866-71; Vice-Pres. of the General 
Society, 1866-71. He took great interest in the objects 
and purposes of this Society, with which he was so long 
identified, and always felt it a pleasant duty to discharge 
the various trusts which it confided to his care. 

In 1868 he established a scholarship in Harvard University, 
giving ^2,500 for that purpose. He directed the income to 
be given to meritorious undergraduates, preference being 
given to those from his native town, Kingston, or from 
Plymouth, the birthplace of his mother. 

He m._7 Dec. 1836, Anne Elizabeth Parsons, dau. of James 
Carter of Boston, who died 15 Dec. 1877. They had no 
children. Col. Sever possessed marked traits of character, 
both moral and intellectual. In his religions and political 



43° BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

views he was eminently conservative ; while his integrity, 
firmness, and intelligence qualified him for public employ- 
ment, and procured for him the respect and esteem of his 
friends. 

REV. WINSLOW WARREN SEVER. 

He is the grand-nephew of Ensign James, and succ. James 
W. Sever in 1871. He was b. in Kingston, Mass., 31 Jan. 
1832; H. U. 1853; Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1856; 
ordained deacon (Prot. Epis. Church), 19 March, 1856; 
priest, 5 March, 1857, and has been successively assistant 
minister of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; rector of 
St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls, Mass., and of 
Christ Church, Lonsdale, R. L; and assistant pastor and 
superintendent of St. Luke's Hospital, N. Y. He is now 
(1890) rector of St. George's Church, Central Falls, R. L 

His grandfather, John Sever, was the brother of Ensign James ; 
his father, James Nicholas, b. 15 Dec. 1793, d. 9 April, 1869, ni. 14 
Nov. 1 81 9, Mercy Foster Russell, a cousin, who d. 3 Nov. 1844. 

He was b. York, Me., 24 Oct. 1752; d. Augusta, Me., 
II Sept. 1845. He was brought up on his father's farm, also 
learning the trade of a mason. Entering the army in May, 
1775, as a corporal in D. Bradish's Co. from Falmouth, he 
was com. ensign in Fernald's Co. of Phinney's reg., and was 
present at the siege of Boston ; was a lieut. in D. Brewer's 
reg. in 1776, in the battle of Hubbardton, and the campaign 
ending in Burgoyne's surrender in Oct. 1777; joined the 
main army at Whitemarsh In Nov., and wintered at Valley 
Forge; was com. capt. in E. Sprout's (12th) reg., i April, 
1779; app. muster-master of Baron De Kalb's division, 9 
Feb. 1778; aide-de-camp to Gen. Heath, 5 Feb. 1781, and 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 43 1 

served to the end of the war. In 1783 he settled at Fort 
Western in Hallowell; was Town Clerk of Hallowell and of 
Augusta for thirty-five years ; was Clerk of the District 
Court of Maine in 1 789-1818; Register of Deeds, 1799-18 16; 
and held successively the commissions of division inspector, 
brigadier, and maj.-gen. of the eighth division of the State 
militia. His diary while in the army has been printed in 
the "Maine Farmer" (Aug. -Nov. 1872). He was ViCE- 
Pres. of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati, 1845. 

His descent from Henry ' Sewall, who settled at Newbury, Mass., 
removed to Rowley in 1657, d. 16 May, 1700, and who m. 25 
March, 1646, Jane, eldest dau. of Stephen Dummer, was through 
John^ b. 10 Oct. 1654, who m. 27 Oct. 1671, Hannah Fessenden 
of Cambridge ; Nicholas^ b. i June, 1690, setded at York, Me., m. 
Mehitable, dau. of Samuel Storer ; Henry ^ (his father). 

Henry m. (ist) Tabitha Sewall, his cousin, 9 Feb. 1786; (2d) 
Rachel Crosby, 3 June, 181 1 ; (3d) Elizabeth, dau. of John Lowell of 
Boston, 9 Sept. 1833. Children — 

Abig.\il, b. 2 April, 1788, m. 9 Nov. 1809, Eben Hutch. 

Charles, b. 13 Nov. 1790. 

M.\RIA, b. II May, 1792, d. 5 Oct. 1795. 

Susannah, b. 5 April, 1794, m. 27 Sept. 1826, Robert Gardiner 
of Hallowell, d. 26 April, 1852. 

William, b. 17 Jan. 1797, d. Illinois, April, 1846. 

Maria, b. 26 March, 1798, d. 10 Oct. 1798. 

M.\RY, b. 23 Oct. 1799, d. 25 March, 1825. 

Caroline Gill, b. 12 April, 1818, m. 27 Nov. 1839, James S. 
Manley. 

Susan, b. 8 April, 1820, m. April, 1840, Joseph A. Homan. 

Henry, b. 3 Dec. 1822. 

Elizabeth Lowell, b. 7 Nov. 1840, d. 20 April, 1859. 

He was b. Boston, 1751 ; d. there 27 Nov. 1800, and was 
buried at Copp's Hill, where his wife Sarah was also interred 
in March preceding Before the Revolution, he was a hatter 



43'^ lUOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ill Boston, and a member of Paddock's artillery Co. He was 
a lieut. in Gridley's artillery reg. in 1775; was com. capt.- 
lieut. in Knox's artillery reg. i Jan. 1776; capt. in Crane's 
artillery reg. i Jan. 1777, and served through the war. 
Present at the battle of Bunker Hill, siege of Boston, Fort 
Montgomery (Oct. 1776,) White Plains, Stony Point, Mon- 
mouth, and Yorktown, and commanded the artjUery com- 
pany from Boston, which served under Gen. Lincoln in 
1786-87 in quelling Shaj-s's insurrection. 

THOMAS SEWARD. 

Son of Capt. Thomas, whom he succ. in 1802; b. Boston, 
25 Nov. 1770; d. there 25 April, 1852. 

He m. 28 Nov. 1820, Susan B., dau. of Benjamin Thompson. 
They had — 

Sus.v\ T., b. 12 Aug. 1821, d. 

Thomas Thompson, b. 19 March, 1S23, d. 2 Nov. 1855. He m, 
Dec. 1850, Lucy F. Soule of Waldoborough, Me., and left one 
child, Susan Farley, b. 7 Oct. 1852, now living in Waldoborough. 

Susan Elizabeth, b. 9 Aug. 1826, d. 

Richard Thompson, b. 11 Aug. 1827. 

RICHARD THOMPSON SEWARD. 

Only surviving son of Thomas, whom he succ. in 1875; 
was b. Boston, n Aug. 1827. He is a draughtsman, and 
resides in Boston. 

Samuel Si^ato. 

He was the third son of Francis and Sarah (Burt) Shaw, 
and was b. in Boston, Mass., 2 Oct. 1754. It is said that his 
grandfather came from Scotland in the reign of Charles the 
Second, and that his name was Thomas; his father (b. Bos- 
ton, 29 March. 1721, d. iS Oct. 1784) was a merchant 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 433 

engaged in extensive business, and distinguished for intelli- 
gence and enterprise. He was educated at one of the com- 
mon schools of Boston, and at the Latin School, then under 
Master James Lovell. As soon as he became of age he ap- 
plied for a commission as lieut. of artillery in the Revolution- 
ary army, then besieging Boston. His application was suc- 
cessful ; he entered the service on i Jan. 1776, and continued 
in the army till the close of the war. His career as a soldier, 
and the estimation in which he was held, are shown by the 
following' documents : — 



By his Excellency, George Washington, Esq., General and Com- , 
mander-in-Cluef of the forces of the United States of 
America. 



L.S. 



This certifies that Captain Samuel Shaw was appointed a lieuten- 
ant of Artillery in the array of the United States of America, in 1775; 
the year following he was appointed adjutant ; and in 1777 was pro- 
moted to the rank of captain-lieutenant and brigade-major in the 
corps of Artillery, in which capacity he served until August, 1779, 
when he was appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General Knox com- 
manding the Artillery, with whom he remained till the close of the 
war, having been promoted to the rank of captain of Artillery, April 
1 2th, 1780. 

From the testimony of the superior officers under whom Captain 
Shaw has served, as well as from my own observation, I am enabled 
to certify that, throughout the whole of his service, he has greatly 
distinguished himself in everything which could entitle him to the 
character of an intelligent, active, and brave officer. 

Given under my hand and seal this third day of November, 1 783. 

Geo. Washington. 

By his Excellency's command. 
Ben. Walker, aide-de-camp. 

This is to certify that the possessor. Captain Samuel Shaw, has 
borne a commission in the artillery of the United States of America 
upwards of eight years, more than seven of which he has been par- 



434 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE. 

ticularly attached to the subscriber, in the capacities of adjutant, 
brigade-major, and aide-de-camp. 

In the various and arduous duties of his several stations, he has, 
in every instance, evinced himself an intelligent, active, and gallant 
officer, and as such he has peculiarly endeared himself to his nu- 
merous acquaintances. 

This testimony is given unsolicited on his part. It is dictated by 
the pure principles of affection and gratitude, inspired by an unequivo- 
cal attachment during a long and trying period of the American war. 

Given under my hand and seal, at West Point, upon Hudson's 
River, this 5 th day of January, 1784. 

L. S. H. Knox, Major-Gcneral. 

Major Shaw was with Gen. Knox until the close of 1783, 
assisting in the arduous and delicate duties incident to the 
disbanding of the army. He took an active part in the for- 
mation of the Society of the Cincinnati, having been sec- 
retary of the committee of officers who organized it. 

Like other soldiers of the Revolution, Major Shaw was in 
debt and without property when he left the army ; but the 
general confidence which his talents and integrity had in- 
spired saved him from subsequent embarrassment. A com- 
pany of capitalists, associated for the prosecution of trade 
between the United States and China, made him an offer of 
the position of factor and commercial agent for a voyage then 
projected. This offer he accepted, only demanding that his 
friend Capt. Thomas Randall of Boston, who had also been 
an officer of artillery under Gen. Knox, and who was then as 
destitute as himself, should be associated with him, and share 
in the profits of the agency. 

They sailed from New York in Jan. 1784, and returned in 
May, 1785. Shortly after his return. Major Shaw received 
an appointment as secretary in the War office, under Gen. 
Knox; but on 4 Feb. 1786, sailed again for Canton, having 
been honorably discharged from his office, and having been 



CINXINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 435 

elected by Congress to be " Consul from the United States at 
Canton," without being entitled to receive any salary, fees, or 
emoluments whatsoever. This office he continued to hold 
till his death, being reappointed by Pres. Washington, 10 
Feb. 1790. 

He resided many years in China, making voyages to other 
parts of the East, and returning twice to the United States, 
where he was m. 21 Aug. 1792, to Hannah, daughter of Wil- 
liam Phillips, Esq., of Boston. He must have been pros- 
perous in business, as his later voyages were made in ships 
owned by himself; one of which, the " Massachusetts," built 
by his order, and launched at Ouincy, Mass., in Sept. 1789, 
of between 800 and 900 tons, was larger than any merchant- 
vessel before built in the United States. This ship appears 
to have been fitted out as a man-of-war rather than as a mer- 
chantman, and was sold by Major Shaw to the agents of the 
Portuguese Government shortly after her arrival in China. 

On 17 March, 1794, Major Shaw, being much reduced by 
a disease of the liver contracted in Bombay, sailed in the ship 
" Washington " from Canton for the United States, but died 
at sea, ofT the Cape of Good Hope, on 30 May of the same 
year.* 

The journal of James Dodge, surgeon of the ship, speaks 
of him thus : — 

" Major Shaw . . . was a man rather tall and portly than other- 
wise ; of an open countenance and benevolent heart ; cheerful with- 
out levity, and sedate without reserve ; in the hurry of business he 
had leisure to attend the distressed, and his hand was ever open to 
indigence and want. His manners were refined, and his sentiments 
were worthy the character he possessed ; many a hea\'y heart has 
been enlivened by his sociabUity ; and his freedom of conversation, 

* A part of the elegant mansion designed by Charles Bulfinch, the architect, 
and erected for Major Shaw's residence, is still standing in Bulfinch Place, 
Boston, and is now known as " Hotel Waterston." It originally had wings con- 
nected with the main edifice by colonnades, and was surrounded with gardens. 



436 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

and familiar deportment towards all the officers endeared him to 
them by the most pleasant ties." 

The Hon. Josiah Quincy said of him : — 

« It was my happiness in my early youth to enjoy the privilege of 
his acquaintance and correspondence ; and now, after the lapse of 
more than fifty years, I can truly say that in the course of a long life 
I have never known an individual of a character more elevated and 
chivahic, acting according to a purer standard of morals, imbued 
with a higher sense of honor, and uniting more intimately the quali- 
ties of the gentleman, the soldier, the scholar, and tiie Christian." 

Major Shaw was made a Fellow of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences, 25 Aug. 1792; and was app. by Gov. 
Hancock aide to Maj.-Gen. Henry Jackson, with rank of 
major in the Mass. militia, 30 Aug. 1792. 

WILLIAM SHAW. 

Eldest surviving brother of Major Samuel, whom he succ. 
in 1800; b. Boston, 30 March, 1756; d. 13 Aug. 1803. On 
the death of his father, and his elder brother Francis, he pur- 
chased the interests of all the owners in the crown grant of 
lands in Gouldsborough, Me., and by good business manage- 
ment succeeded in making a handsome fortune out of his 
venture. He subsequently sold his rights to the owners of 
what was known as " the Bingham purchase," and transferred 
his residence and his business to Boston. 

He was twice married. By his first wife, Hannah Proctor, he had 
a daughter, Judith, who m. William Tuckerman of Boston. By his 
second wife, Judith Proctor, he had a son, Francis, b. Oct. 1793, 
who d. without issue, in Jan. 1823. 

ROBERT GOULD SHAW. 

Eldest surviving son of Francis (Major Samuel's eldest 
brother) and Hannah (Nickels) Shaw; succ. William Shaw 





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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 437 

ini8i2; was Treasurer in 1836-41; President, 1849-53. 
He was b. Gouldsborough, Me., 4 June, 1776; d. Boston, 3 
May, 1853. When fourteen years old, he came to Boston with 
the purpose of sailing as midshipman in his uncle Samuel's 
ship " Massachusetts," but remained as apprentice to his uncle 
William, who testified his appreciation of him by leaving 
him, though young, guardian to his children. As one of the 
firm of Tuckerman, Shaw, & Rogers, he resided for some 
years in England. Returning to this country, he became 
principal of the house of Shaw, Barker, & Bridge ; and after 
the dissolution of this firm, continued in business under his 
own name, and that of Robert G. Shaw & Co., until his death, 
having associated with himself as partners William Perkins 
(late Treasurer Cincinnati Society), and four of his own sons 
successively. He was very successful in business ; was for 
many years President of the old Boston Bank; and throughout 
his life enjoyed the esteem of his fellow-citizens as manifested 
in various ways. He was a tender-hearted and open-handed 
man ; always ready especially to aid young men who were 
starting in life ; and never, in any one instance, as he told 
the writer, did he have occasion to regret an act of kindness. 
At his death, besides other charitable bequests, he left a large 
amount of money for the establishment of " The Shaw Asy- 
lum for Mariners' Children," from the income of which, after 
providing for the support of such as must necessarily be in- 
mates of the asylum itself, assistance is given to others who 
are also its proper objects, without removing them from the 
care of their relatives, or from the life and circumstances into 
which they were born. 

He m. 2 Feb. 1809, Eliza Willard, dau. of Samuel (whose first 
wife was a sister of Major Shaw), and Sarah (Rogers) Parkman. 
She d. 14 April, 1853. Of their children — 

Francis George, d. 7 Nov. 1882. 

Sarah Park-Uan, m. George Robert Russell, d. 14 Aug. 1888. 



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S.MiUEL Parkman, m. Hannah Buck, d. 7 Dec. 1869. 

Robert Gould, m. Mary Louisa Sturgis, d. 2 Dec. 1853. 

Anna Blake, m. William Batchelder Greene (5 July, 1S61, Col. 

14th reg. Mass. vols, ist Mass. heavy artillery), 23 March, 

1864. 
Gardiner Howland, m. Cora Lyman, d. i May, 1867. 
Joseph Coolidge, d. a Catholic priest, 10 March, 185 1. 
Elizabeth Willard, m. Daniel Augustus Oliver, d. 14 Feb. 1S50. 
QuiNcv Adams, m. Pauline Agassiz. 
William Henry, d. in infancy. 
Marun, m. Frederick Richard Sears, d. 9 ALarch, 1855. 

FRANCIS GEORGE SHAW. 

Eldest son of the foregoing, whom he succ. in 1858; b. 
in Boston, 23 Oct. 1809; d. Staten Island, 7 Nov. 1882. 
He was educated principally at the Latin School in Boston. 
At the age of sixteen he entered Harvard University as 
Sophomore, but left at close of first Junior term to enter 
the counting-room of his father, whose partner he became 
after some years spent in the West Indies and in Europe. 
He retired from active business in 1840; translated " Con- 
suelo," and other works of George Sand ; " The Life of 
Charles Fourier," and various writings of the Phalan- 
sterian School; Zschokke's " History of Switzerland," and 
other books; was President of the National Freedman's 
Relief Association, and of the New York Branch Freedman's 
Union Commission. 

In a privately printed memorial, from which the following 
extract is taken, his character has been traced by a com- 
petent and loving hand : — 

"Passing from college to the counting-room of a great commercial 
business, his sagacity, energy, and executive power were all brought 
into successful action. He went to Europe and to the West Indies ; 
but much of the spirit of trade and many of its practices were un- 
congenial to him. and he ([uietly withdrew, despite wonder and 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 439 

affectionate remonstrance, to lead his own life in his own way. By 
taste and temperament an outdoor man, he made his home in the 
rural neighborhood of Boston, busy with country cares and various 
studies, but interested chiefly in helping other men. He was allied 
by sympathy more than by much previous actual association with the 
founders of Brook Farm. But when they chose the site for their 
enterprise not far from his house, he was soon in the pleasantest 
relations with the leaders, for their spirit and purpose were in har- 
mony with his own. He was a parishioner and warm personal friend 
of Theodore Parker, who lived near him ; and his keen common- 
sense and mastery of practical affairs were most useful to Parker as 
to Ripley. Indeed, the hospitality of such a man for every generous 
endeavor and for all new and humane ideas was a happy augury for 
the philanthropic pioneers, because it seemed to promise the final- 
approval and adhesion to their cause of the most conservative and 
substantial sentiment of the community. . . . Ixjng absence with his 
family in Europe and a long and final residence upon Staten Island 
only matured and developed the man, in whom not only was there 
no guile, but in whom even the most intimate eye could not note 
a fault. Clarendon might have studied from him his portrait of 
Falkland ; ' his inimitable sweetness of, and delight in, conversation ; 
his flowing and obliging humanity ; his goodness to mankind ; and 
his primitive simplicity and integrity of life.' Disinclined to public 
life of every kind, he was yet full of the highest public spirit ; and it 
was but natural that his only son should have been selected by Gov- 
ernor Andrew to command the first colored regiment that marched 
from Massachusetts in the war. In his young person all that was 
best in the New England youth of his time, all the strength of the 
elder colonial and Revolutionary day, blended with all the grace and 
tenderness and gentleness of its modern life, the stem old Puritan, 
softened into a humaner Bayard, was tj'pified. It was the flower of 
Essex that two hundred years ago was withered in the fatal Indian 
ambush in the Deerfield meadows. It was the flower of New Eng- 
land that fell upon a hundred redder fields within a score of years." 

He m. 9 June, 1835, Sarah Blake, dau. of Nathaniel Russell and 
Susan (Parkman) Sturgis, and grand-niece of Major Samuel Shaw. 
Of their children — 



440 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Anna, m. Hon. George William Curtis. 

Robert Gould, b. lo Oct. 1837 (19 April, 1861, private 7th reg. 
N. Y. National Guard ; 28 May, 2d lieut. 2d reg. Mass. vols. ; 
8 July, ist lieut. ; 10 Aug. 1862, captain of same regiment ; and 
17 April, 1863, colonel 54th reg. Mass. vols., colored), m. 2 
May, 1863, Anna Kneeland Haggerty, and was killed 18 July, 

1863, leading the assault on Fort Wagner, S. C. 
Susanna, m. Robert Bowne Minturn. 

Josephine, m. Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. (14 May, 1861, capt. 
6th U. S. cav. ; 15 April, 1863, col. 2d Mass. cav. ; 19 Oct. 

1864, brig.-gen. vols.), who d. 20 Oct. 1864, of wounds received 
at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., the day previous. 

Ellen, m. Francis Channing Barlow (19 April, 1861, private 12th 
reg. N. Y. mil. ; 3 May, ist lieut. ; 9 Nov. lieut.col. 6ist N. Y. 
vols.; 14 April, 1862, col.; 19 Sept. brig.-gen.; 5 Aug. 1864, 
brevet-maj.-gen. ; March, 1865, maj. -gen. vols.). 

GEORGE RUSSELL SHAW. 

Second son of Samuel Parkman Shaw (b. ig Nov. 1813, 
d. 7 Dec. 1869), and nephew of Francis George Shaw, whom 
he succ. in 1884; was b. Parkman, Me., 28 Oct. 1848; H. U. 
1869. He is an architect, and resides in Boston. 

He m. 31 Aug. 1874, Emily Mott, dau. of Thomas Mott, the son 
of Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia. Children — 
Francis George, b. 13 Aug. 1875. 
Isabel Pelham, b. 18 Feb. 1877. 
Thomas Mott, b. 19 Sept. 1878. 

SUiIliam Sljcjjaiir. 

He was b. Westficld, Mass., i Dec. 1737; d. there 11 Nov. 
1 817. He was a descendant of John Shepard of Mendle- 
sham, Sul=l"olk, England (15 50).* His grandfather John, of 
Wetheringset in the same county (b. 1671, d. 10 Aug. 1756), 

* Miinsell's American Ancestry, vol. i. p. yt. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 44 1 

came to America about 1700, and settled in Westfield, Mass., 
where he soon afterward married Elizabeth Woodruff. His 
father, known as Deacon John Shepard (b. 1706, d. 17S0), 
was an influential and respected citizen of the town, owning 
considerable landed property, and for a number of years 
Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. William, the subject 
of this notice, received only a common-school education, 
limited at that time in the country towns to instruction in 
reading, writing, and arithmetic during ten or twelve weeks in 
the year. His brother David (b. 1744, d. 1819) graduated 
at Yale College in 1766, and was a surgeon in the Revolu- 
tionary army. 

It is said that William " gave early intimations of firmness 
and decision of character."* In 1754, at the early age of 
seventeen, he enlisted as a private soldier in defence of the 
frontier settlements against the incursions of the French and 
Indians. Two years later he was promoted to be sergeant, 
and accompanied the provincial troops to Canada. In 
1758-59 he served as a lieutenant in the expeditions against 
Fort William Henry, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point. His 
name appears on the French war rolls at the Mass. State 
House as 2d lieut. of Capt. John Bancroft's company, serv- 
ing from 31 March to i Dec. 1759. From 22 Feb. to I Dec. 
1760, he appears on the rolls as captain in command of a 
company from Westfield and vicinity. After a continuous 
service of six years, the hardships of which were almost 
without parallel, young Shepard returned to his native town 
and settled down quietly as a farmer. In 1760 he m. Sarah 
Dewey. Rev. Mr. Knapp, afterward his pastor, says of him 
at this time : — 

'• His morals and religious principles were not corrupted by his 
residence in the camp. As a citizen, he was then highly respectable 

* Funeral sermon by Rev. Isaac Knapp. iS Nov. 1S17. 



442 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

and exemplary, employed in agricultural pursuits, affectionately 
attentive to his then growing family, and strongly attached to his 
domestic circle." 

In 1/74 he appears as one of the Committee of Correspond- 
ence, for the town of Westfield, to carry out the resolves of 
the Provincial Congress. In June, 1775, he was appointed a 
lieut.-col. in the regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Dan- 
ielson, then on duty in the camp at Roxbury. Of his ser- 
vices during the siege of Boston no records exist; but that 
they were of value is shown from the fact that on 4 May, 
1776, he was promoted to be colonel of the 4th Mass. reg. 
He was subsequently, says the Rev. Mr. Knapp, "in the 
hazardous but successful enterprise of bringing off our troops 
from Long Island ; and when the British landed at Fell's 
Point, near New York, Col. Shepard was appointed by Wash- 
ington to guard the retreat of the American army. A few 
hundred under his command were to check the progress of 
the whole British army till the American forces could retire 
to a place of safety. The event proved that he was worthy 
of so important a trust. In executing this perilous task, he 
received a wound from a musket-ball which passed through 
his neck. In a few weeks, however, he so far recovered that 
he resumed the command of his regiment." 

He served under Washington during the retreat through 
New Jersey and the subsequent successes at Trenton and 
Princeton. Afterward he was detached to join the Northern 
army under Gates, and took part in the skirmishes and battles 
which led to the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga on 17 
Oct. 1777. 

In the year 1 780 Shepard had command of a brigade, 
under La Fayette, and continued in that position until his 
retirement at the end of the war; but his rank was not 
changed, and he appears on the rolls during that period 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 443 

as in command of the " 4th reg." The Rev. Mr. Knapp 
says : — 

" As to his military character, he was ever ready at the call of 
duty, to endure hardship and to face danger. He knew how to 
command and how to obey. Whatever orders he received from his 
superiors in office were sure to be executed with promptness and 
fidelity; and he could command the obedience of those under 
him without using any profane language. In all the temptations 
incident to the camp, he, through the grace of God, kept himself 
pure. He stood high in the esteem of his illustrious Commander-in- 
Chief. Few if any officers of his rank shared more largely in the 
confidence of Washington." 

At the close of the war Col. Shepard returned to his farm 
at VVestfield, but he was not allowed to rest on his laurels. 
He was elected to the lower branch of the General Court in 
1785 and 1786. On 20 March, 1786, he was chosen major- 
general of the 4th division Mass. militia; and events soon 
occurred to justify the wisdom of the choice. It was largely 
due to the firm but conciliatory policy pursued by him that 
the insurrection, which had assumed such formidable propor- 
tions in the western part of the State during the latter part of 
the year 1786, was so promptly and effectually checked. A 
competent authority * has stated that, with the exception of 
the town of Boston and its immediate vicinity, the rebels had 
at that time (the summer and autumn of 1786) substantially 
the control of the State. The e.xtent of the disaffection was 
not known to the State authorities until the danger had passed, 
and until, order having been restored, the Legislature passed 
an act disqualifying for civil office those who had taken part 
in the rebellion. It was then found that in some towns there 
were not enough men untainted with rebellion to fill the 

* "Springfield in the Insurrection of 17S6 ;" a paper by Wm. L. Smith 
printed in the Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, 1876- 
1881. 



444 KIOGRArillCAL NOTICES OF THE 

neccssan' town offices, ami further legislation was required to 
cover such cases. The Supreme Judicial Court was to meet 
at Springfield on the fourth Tuesday in Sept. The rebels had 
alrcail}- preventcti the Court of Common Pleas from sitting 
in a number of the counties, and they now felt thcmsei\-es 
strong enough to prevent the administration of justice in 
the highest court. They accordingly gave notice that the 
Springfield term should not be held. To Gen. Shepard was 
intrusted the duty of protecting the court. He got together 
a force consisting of about six hundred militiamen and volun- 
teers, and took possession of the court-house. On the day 
appointed for the opening of the court the insurgents paraded 
w ith a much larger force than Gen. .Shepard hatl been able to 
collect, but the men were poorly armed and ill disciplined. 
Daniel Sha\-s, their leader, had made an honorable record as 
an officer in the war of the Revolution, but was poorly fitted 
to pla}' the part he had undertaken. He and his followers 
attempted to intimidate the court; but the judges were not 
wanting in firmness, and announced their readiness to attend 
to such business as might properly come before them. They 
were unable, however, to accomplish much, as the grand 
iur\- coukl not be got together, and no cases were read)- for 
trial. After sitting three days, the court adjourned. The 
rebels in the mean time endeavored to provoke a disturbance 
by marching and counter-marching past the court-house ; but 
Gen. Shepard kept his men well in hand, and could not be 
forced into a false position. .After the adjournment he moved 
his forces to the federal arsenal, as there was reason to be- 
lieve that the rebels would soon attempt to secure a supply 
of arms frc)m that source. -As no hostile demonstrations 
were made. Gen. Shepard dismissed the bulk of his forces and 
returned home. Some three months later, however (Jan. 
1787), it was known that Shays and his council had deter- 
mined to seize the arsenal at .Springfield, and after getting a 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 445 

full supply of arms and ammunition, make an attack on Bos- 
ton. Acting under the authority of the Secretary of War 
(Knox), Gen. Shcpard hastily collected his men again, and oc- 
cupied the arsenal before Shays was ready to act. The Gov- 
ernor and Council, recognizing the gravity of the situation, and 
aided by a loan from Boston capitalists, issued orders for 
raising and equipping 4,500 men. The chief command in the 
State was given to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, whose orders were, 
first, to protect the sittings of the court at Worcester, and 
then to use his discretion as to further movements against the 
rebels. It does not come within the scope of this notice to 
follow the movements in detail ; it is sufficient to say that the 
military situation on 24 Jan. was as follows: * Gen. Shcpard 
was posted at the arsenal with about a thousand men. Shays 
had just reached Wilbraham on his march from Rutland. A 
part of Lincoln's command was less than two days' march in 
the rear of Shays. Luke Day, who, next to Shays, was per- 
haps the most influential leader among the insurgents, was at 
West Springfield with about 400 men and boys, said to be 
well armed and well drilled. He was within easy reach of 
the arsenal, as the river was frozen over. Eli Parsons, a Berk- 
shire leader, was in the north parish of Springfield, now 
Chicopee, with about 400 men. The total insurgent force 
was about 2,000. 

Shays sent a message to Day, from the town of Wilbraham, 
stating that he intended to attack the arsenal on the 25th. 
Day replied that he could not move on that day, but would 
be ready on the 26th. The reply fell into the hands of Gen. 
Shcpard ; and Shays, hearing nothing to the contrary, assumed 
that Day would co-operate with him. When therefore on 
the afternoon of the 25 th the rebel column was seen march- 
ing on the arsenal, Gen. Shepard was ready for the encounter. 

* Wm. L. Smith's paper; see note, ante, p. 443. 



446 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

The report whicli he made to the Governor on the following 
day tells briefly what took place : — 

Springfield, 26 ]an. 1787. 

Sir, — The unhappy time has come in which we have been obliged 
to shed blood. Shays, who was at the head of about 1,200 men, 
marched yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock toward the public 
buildings, in battle array. He marched his men in an open col- 
umn by platoons. I sent several times by one of my aids and two 
other gentlemen, Capts. Buffington and Woodbridge, to him to know 
what he was after, or what he wanted. His reply was, he wanted 
barracks, — barracks he would have, and stores. The answer was, 
he must purchase them dear, if he had them ! He still proceeded 
on his march, until he approached within two hundred and fifty 
yards of the arsenal. He then made a halt. I immediately sent 
Major Lyman, one of my aids, and Capt. Buffington, to inform him 
not to march his troops any nearer the arsenal on his peril, as I 
was stationed here by order of your Excellency and the Secretary- 
at-War for the defense of the publick property ; in case he did, I 
should surely fire on him and his men. A Mr. Wheeler, who ap- 
peared to be one of Shays' aids, met Mr. Lyman, after he had 
delivered my orders, in the most peremptory manner, and made 
answer that that was all he wanted. Shays immediately put his 
troops in motion, and marched on rapidly near one hundred yards. 
I then ordered Major Stephens, who commanded the artillery, to 
fire upon them ; he accordingly did. The two first shot he endeav- 
ored to overshoot them, in hope they would have taken warning 
without firing among them ; but it had no effect on them. Major 
Stephens then directed his shot through the centre of his [w] col- 
umn. The fourth or fifth shot put the whole column into the utmost 
confusion. Shays made an attempt to display his column, but in 
vain. We had one howit, which was loaded with grape-shot, which 
when fired gave them great uneasiness. Had I been disposed to 
destroy them, I might have charged upon their rear and flanks with 
my infantry and the two field-pieces, and could have killed the 
greater part of his whole army within twenty-five minutes. There 
was not a single musket fired on either side. 

I found three men dead on the spot, and one wounded, who is 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 447 

since dead. One of our artillerymen, by inattention, was badly 
wounded. Three muskets were taken up with the dead, which were 
all deeply loaded. I enclose to your Excellency a copy of a paper 
sent to me last evening. I have received no reinforcements yet, and 
expect to be attacked this day by their whole force combined. I 
am, sir, with great respect, 

Your Excellencies [sic] most obedient, humble servant, 

\\'lLLL\.M ShEPARD. 
To His E.xcellency James Bowdoin, Esq 

The paper mentioned as enclosed was signed by Luke 
Day, and called upon the troops in Springfield to lay down 
their arms and return to their homes on parole. 

On the evening of the 25th Shays sent a flag of truce to 
Gen. Shepard, requesting that the bodies of " five " men 
killed before the arsenal be delivered to him. The General 
replied that he could not furnish him at that time with five 
bodies, as he had but four and one of them was not quite 
dead ; but if another attack were made on the arsenal he 
would fill an order for all the dead rebels desired. Shays re- 
treated to North Springfield during the night, and his men 
began to fall away from him. Gen. Lincoln reached Spring- 
field on the 27th, and immediately crossed the river to seize 
Day. Gen. Shepard moved up the east bank of the river to 
prevent a junction between Day and Shays. But the " whiff 
of grape-shot " in front of the arsenal had virtually ended 
the so-called " Shays rebellion." and there was no further 
organized resistance to the laws. 

On 5 Feb. 1787, the General Court recognized the value 
of Gen. Shepard's services by adopting unanimously in both 
branches the following resolve : — 

" That the General Court highly approve of the conduct of Major- 
General Shepard and the militia of his division for their exertions and 
spirited defence of the federal arsenal at Springfield against the 
.3aring attempts and attack of the insurgents." 



44''^ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

This v/as the last active military service performed by Gen. 
Shepard ; but in the years which followed he served by elec- 
tion or appointment in many important civil offices. He was 
appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to treat with the 
Penobscot Indians, and by the National Government to treat 
with the Six Nations. He was chosen Presidential Elector for 
the first and second elections under the Constitution, 1788- 
92. He served as a member of the Governor's Council for 
five years, — 1792 to 1796 inclusive. In 1797 he was chosen 
a member of the House of Representatives of the United 
States, serving there by successive re-elections for a period 
of six years. The last years of his life were spent quietly on 
his farm at Westfield, where he d. on 11 Nov. 1817, at the 
age of eighty. 

Gen. Shepard might well be taken as a typical soldier of 
the American Revolution, — brave, earnest, and God-fearing. 
The rough life of a camp in the critical period between boy- 
hood and manhood did not corrupt his morals. The sav- 
a"-ery of border warfare with the Indians did not affect the 
natural kindliness of his disposition. He appears to have 
had a certain grim humor of the Cromwellian kind ; and 
it may be said of him indeed that he was a captain after 
Cromwell's own heart. 

Hon. William G. Bates, in his historical address at the 
celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incor- 
poration of Westfield, said of him : — 

" His reputation for bravery was established in twenty-two battles ; 
his sound common-sense and his sympathy for suffering were dis- 
played not only in his military career, but during the course of a long 
and useful life. With none of the adventitious aids to advancement 
which usually raise men to posts of dignity, with but an imperfect 
education and no elocutionary power, his strong, active appreciation 
of the fitness of things, ... his character for bravery, uprightness,^ 
and intelligence commended him to the confidence of the people, 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 449 

. . . and he fulfilled the expectations of those who honored him with 
their confidence." 

By his wife Sarah (Dewey) Shepard, who d. in 1S29, ae 87, he 
had — 

WiLLLVM. 

Turner, b. 16 Sept. 1762, who m. Lydia Derby, and had Rami, 
Fanny, and Chautucy. They lived in Hebron, N. Y. 

Charles? (This name does not appear in the town records.) 

Sarah, b. 17 Feb. 1767, m. William Eastman of Granby, Mass. 
Had no children. 

Noah. 

Nancy, b. 25 Oct. 17 71, d. St. Albans, Vt., 17 Feb. 1802; m. 
Hon. Seth Wetmore of St. Albans, i Feb. 1800, and had one 
son, William Shepard, b. St. Albans, 25 Jan. 1801, d. Newport, 
R. I., 16 June, 1862. William Shepard Wetmore, by his second 
wife, had George Peabody. 

Wareham, b. 29 Dec. 1773, d. 8 July, 1855. He m. (ist) Lucy 
Marsh of Norwich, Ct., and had four children; (2d) Jerusha 
Eastman of Granby, Mass., and had five children, of whom three 
are now living in Westfield ; namely, William, Lyman, and 
Henry. 

Lucy, b. 15 Dec. 1778, m. Ephraim Hastings of Heath, Mass., 
and had four daughters. 

Henry, b. 24 June, 1782, m. Huldah Shepard, a cousin, and had 
six children. Removed to Ohio. 

NOAH SHEPARD. 

Son of Gen. William, whom he succ. in 1832; was b. 20 
Feb. 1769; d. 30 Aug. 1845. He was engaged in business at 
Otis, Mass., for a time; afterward he was a farmer. 

He m. (ist) Dolly Watson of Blanford, and had six sons and six 
daughters ; (2d) Sophia Dewey of Westfield, who d. in 1864. 

Eldest son of Gen. William ; was b. Westfield, Mass., 19 
March, 1760; d. Canandaigua, N. Y., Jul}', 1S23. Com. ensign 



450 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

in his father's (4th) reg. i Jan. 1781. He m. (ist) Mar- 
garet Moseley, and had two children; (2d) Fanny Moseley, 
and had three children. He removed to Canandaigua, N. Y. ; 
was deacon of the Congregational Church tliere, and High 
Sheriff of the county. His cliildren left no descendants. 

GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE. 

Grandson of Nancy (Shepard) Wetmore, and grand-nephew 
of Ensign William, whom he succ. in 1877; was b. London, 
Eng., 2 Aug. 1846; Yale University 1867, and A.M. 1871; 
Columbia College, LL.B. 1869; Trustee of the Peabody 
Museum of Natural History in Yale University; Presiden- 
tial Elector of the State of Rhode Island, 1880 and 1884; 
member of the State Committee to receive the Representa- 
tives of France on their official visit to the State of Rhode 
Island in Oct. and Nov., 1881 ; elected Governor of Rhode 
Island, I April, 1885, and for a second term, 7 April, 1886. 
Resides in Newport, R. I. 

Daniel Sftutc, ^.JB. 

He was the son of Rev. Daniel Shute, D.D. (H. U. 1743), 
who d. 1802, je. 80; was b. Hingham, Mass., about 1755; 
H. U. 1775. Com. surgeon in H. Jackson's (4th) reg. 14 
April, 1782; afterward a physician in Hingham, where he d. 
18 April, 1829. 

DANIEL SHUTE. 

Son of Dr. Daniel (H. U. 1812; M.D, 1815), a physician 
of Hingham, who d. there in 1839, and grandson of Surgeon 
Daniel, whom he succ. in 1852; b. South Hingham, 24 Oct. 
1817. He is a shoemaker, and resides in South Hingham. 

He m. 16 March, 1843, Hannah, dau. of Joseph Milder. Children : 
D. Waldo, b. 30 April, 1845. 
Annie W., b. 16 Sept. 1855. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 45 I 

He was b. Lebanon, Ct., in Jan. 1746; d. New Marlborough, 
Mass., 1816. He removed to Berkshire, Mass., in 1770. En- 
listed as a private in Sowles's Co. of Fellows's reg. in May, 
1775 ; was ensign in Noah Allen's Co. of Asa VVhitcomb's 
reg. 1 Jan. -27 Nov. 1776, and present at Ticonderoga; com. 
lieut. 28 Nov. 1776; in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. in 1777-79; 
com. capt. in Smith's (13th) reg. 30 March, 1779; present at 
Bunker Hill, siege of Boston, capture of Burgoyne, Sullivan's 
R. I. campaign, and the battle of Monmouth. He had the 
duty of guarding Major Andre the night before that officer 
was executed. At the close of more than eight years' service 
he was the oldest captain in the Mass. line. 

He m. in Nov. 1766, Sarah, dau. of Seth Dean. Children — 

Rev. David. 

Betsey, who m. Aaron Adams. 

Sarah, m. Ezekiel Foster. 

Walter Dean, who m. a dau. of Rev. Simon Waterman of 

Plymouth, Ct. 
I-UCY P., m. Eliiha Lewis. 
Almira. 

Faxn\', m. Rev. Pitkin Cowles of Canaan, Ct. 
Laura, m. Rev. Jacob Catlin of New Marlborough. 

DAVID SMITH. D.D. 

Eldest son of Capt. Ebenezer, whom he succ. in 1846; b. 
Bozrah, Ct., 13 Dec. 1767 ; d. New Haven, Ct., 5 March, 1862 ; 
Y. C. 1795. He entered the continental army at an early 
age, and served during the last year of the war under his 
father. He was licensed to preach in Oct. 1796; pastor First 
Congregational Church, Durham, Ct., from 15 Aug. 1799, to 
Jan. 1832. In 1830 he received the degree of D.D. from 
Hamilton College. For many years he received youth into 



452 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

his family and fitted them for college ; and besides his pro- 
fessional employments, cultivated a farm with good judgment 
and success, laboring with his own hands. 

He m. (I St) Betsey Marsh, by whom he had — 
David Marsh. 

He m. (2d) Catharine, dau. of Rev. Dr. E. Goodrich, and had 
two sons (who d. without issue) and three daughters. 



ALFRED t:THELBERT S.MITH. 

Son of David Marsh and grandson of Rev. David, whom 
he succ. in 1885; was b. Lewiston, Niagara Co., N. Y., 19 
Dec. 1822. He was prepared for college, but entered the 
West Point Military Academy. After studying there for 
something over a year he resigned, and engaged in mer- 
cantile and manufacturing business. He has invented a great 
number of improvements in carriage-axles, railroad appli- 
ances, and other things, for which numerous patents have 
been granted. He resides in Bronxville, N. Y, 

His father, David Marsh Smith, was b. 11 Aug. 1789 ; d. 15 July, 
1880 ; Y. C. 181 1. He was a clergyman in the Presbyterian Church, 
and a missionary to the Tuscarora Indians. In 1835 ^^ removed 
to Stockport, N. Y., and established the Hudson River Seminary. 
He was a man of much energy and of high character. He m. 
Clarissa Parker, of Litchfield, N. H. They had : Robert Walter, d. 
6 Dec. 1881 ; Clarissa Ann, d. 24 Dec. 1844 ; Catharine C; Al- 
fred Ethelbert ; Elizabeth ^/., d. 27 May, 1861 ; David E., M.D. 

Alfred Ethelbert Smith m. 25 May, 1859, Julia, dau. of Charles 
Morgan. Children — 

Julia Ethel, b. 25 Oct. i860. 

Alfred Ethelbert, b. 21 Feb. 1864. 

Mabel Parker, b. ii Nov. 1868. 

Bertha Morgan, b. 6 Sept. 1871. 

Daisv, b. 14 March, 1874. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 453 

lEtJcncjrr SmitJ). 

In his application for a pension, filed in May, 1S18, he 
stated that he was then living in Woolwich, Lincoln Co., 
Me. ; that he was 66 years of age ; that he had served eight 
years in the war of the Revolution, having volunteered as a 
private in Sept. 1775 ; that he was com. lieut. I Jan. 1777, in 
M.Jackson's (8th) reg. ; served for a time at Boston; after- 
ward marched to Albany, N. Y. ; thence to Cherry Valley, 
Oswego County, to protect the inhabitants and property 
against the Indians and Tories; in Aug. 1777 served in the 
garrison at Fort Stanwi.x (now Rome, Oneida County), which 
successfully resisted a long siege of the forces under St. 
Leger; then rejoined his regiment in the Northern army, 
and went through the campaign against Burgoyne ; after- 
ward marched to Pennsylvania, and went into winter quar- 
ters at Valley Forge ; was in the battle of Monmouth and 
the storming of Stony Point under Gen. Wayne. He was 
com. capt. 8th reg. 16 Sept. 1780. His company was dis- 
banded in June, 1783 ; but he was transferred to H. Jackson's 
(4th) reg., and continued in the service until Dec. 1783. 
During the war of 1812 Pres. Madison appointed him lieut.- 
col. ; but he did not go into active service, owing to age and 
domestic considerations. 

He m. 27 Nov. i 794, at Woolwich, Me., Jennet McKown. She 
was his second wife. He d. at Woolwich, 4 Sept. 1824. She d. 
13 Feb. 1854, se. 86. There is no record of any children. 

Soljn acitfi Smitf). 

He was b. Boston, 17 Dec. 1753 ; d. Portland, Me., 7 Aug. 
1842; was 2d lieut. in Whitcomb's reg. at the siege of Bos- 
ton; was com. lieut. and adj. of Wigglesworth's reg. (13th) 
I Jan. 1777; com. capt. 12 Feb. 1778, and in Sullivan's 



454 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

R. I. campaign and the battle of Monmoutli, in which 
he commanded Shepard's reg. and was brigade major; 
served in the Hght infantry at the siege of Yorktown, was 
sometime aide to La Fayette, and was conspicuous in the 
army for bravery and prudence. Sally, his wife, d. 2 Feb. 
1837, ae. 68. He had four daughters and three sons. 

HENRY S.MITH. 

Eldest son of John Kilby, whom he succ. in 1846; b. 
Portland, Me., 12 Sept. 1794; d. Raymond Village, Me., 10 

Jan. 1 87 1. 

By his wife, Jane E. Waite, b. 2 Nov. 1799, d. 18 July, 1864, he 
had — 

Jane E., b. 25 March, 1823, d. 26 March, 1S65. 
William H. 

Caroline W., b. 13 Sept. 1827, d. 29 Nov. 1871. 
Sarah A., b. 12 Oct. 1829. 
Mary A., b. 21 Feb. 1832. 
Harriet E., b. 4 Sept. 1834. 
Alice W., b. i i Sept. 1837. 
Nancy C, b. 17 Sept. 1839. 

Alonzo a., b. 25 Sept. 1843 ; private Co. F. 25th reg. Me. vols. ; 
d. at Arlington Heights, Washington, D. C, 9 Dec. 1862. 

WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. 

Eldest son of Henry, whom he succ. in 1881; was b. 
Poland, Me., 30 Nov. 1824; was a hotel-keeper, farmer, and 
cattle-broker in Windham, Me., until 1864, when he removed 
to Raymond Village, Me., to take charge of the Sawyer hotel, 
and where he has since lived. He has held office as Select- 
man and Assessor of the town, and as chairman of the Board 
of Trustees of the Raymond Village Union Parish. He is a 
justice of the peace and of the quorum, one of the leaders 
of the temperance reform movement in the town in 1874, 



CI^XINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 455 

and a charter member of a number of social and charitable 
organizations. 

He m. 25 June, 1848, Joann I"" rye, dau. of John Moore of 
Lewiston, Me. 

Of Barre, Mass.; was com. i March, 1778, lieut. in 
R. Putnam's (5th) reg. ; afterward adjutant. 

Josiai) Smttf). 

He was b. in 1756; d. Wareham, Mass., 20 June, 1848. 
He joined the army in 1775; was com. lieut. 27 March, 
1780, in Marshall's (lOth) reg.; in 6th reg. in 1783. He 
was present at Long Island, White Plains, Saratoga, Tren- 
ton, Stony Point (one of the forlorn hope), Monmouth, 
and Yorktown. The traitor Arnold once saved his life. 
Mr. Smith and others, being in pursuit of Indians, were 
surprised by their ambushed foes, when Arnold rode up, 
and grasping him by the shoulder rode off with him, mak- 
ing a successful escape, although his hat and clothing were 
pierced with balls fired by the Indians in pursuit. Every 
one of his comrades on this occasion was killed. Mr. 
Smith left one son. 

•Stlbanus ^mttl). 

He was the son of Nathan, and was b. Shirley, Mass., 
1746; d. there 12 May, 1830. He was ist lieut. in a 
company of eighty men that responded to the Lexington 
alarm, 19 April, 1775; lieut. in Whitcomb's reg. May- 
Dec. 1775; in Little's reg. at the siege of Boston; com. 
capt. in Bigelow's (15th) reg. I Jan. 1777, and served in 
Sullivan's campaign in 1778; in sth reg. 1783. He was 
a carpenter by trade. 



456 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

By his wife Agnes Moors of Boylston, Mass., who survived him, he 
had — 

SiLVANUS, b. 1 1 Oct. 1766, d. Feb. 20, 1847, m. Abigail Farley of 
Groton, and had Abbot, Alary Ann, and Cyntliia. 

Ruth, b. 28 Jan. 1768, d. unm. 

Hugh, b. 23 July, 1769. 

Lucy, b. 6 Sept. 1772, m. Gowan B. Neman, and had one daugh- 
ter and three sons. 

Daniel, b. 8 Sept. 1773. 

Jerusha, b. 30 Sept. 1775, d. 30 Dec. 1789. 

Agnes, b. 7 Nov. 1777. 

Simeon Smttl). 

Lieut in Patcrson's reg. in May -Dec. 1775; capt. in 
1783; living on a government pension in New York, in 
1820. 

Simeon Sprinfi. 

He was the son of William Spring of Newton ; b. 20 Jan. 
1752; d. before 1812. Com. ensign in Shepard's (4th) reg. 
I Jan. 1777; lieut. 20 March, 1779; in Sullivan's R. I. cam- 
paign in 1778. 

ISficncKC Sprout. 

He was the son of Col. Ebcnezer Sprout of Middle- 
borough, where he was b. 9 Feb. 1752, and became, like his 
father, an uncommonly tall and portly man. In his youth he 
assisted his father upon the farm, and learned surveying. 
He entered the army as a captain, and soon became major 
in Cotton's reg., in which he served at the siege of Bos- 
ton. He held the same rank successively in Learned's and 
E. Francis's reg. in 1776; was com. lieut. -col. of Shepard's 
(4th) reg. I Jan. 1777; lieut. -col. commanding the I2th reg 
29 Sept. 1778, and continued in service with credit to himself 
and the regiment to which he was attached, until the close of 
the war. He was in Glover's brigade at Trenton, Princeton, 



CIXCIXNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 457 

and Monmouth, and in Sullivan's campaign in Rhode Island 
in 1778-79; and being a noted disciplinarian, was made an 
inspector of brigade under Steuben. He was second in com- 
mand of the detachment which under Gen. Robert Howe, in 
Jan. 1 78 1, quelled the mutiny of the N. J. line. After the war 
he m. Catharine, dau. of Commodore Whipple of Providence, 
where he engaged in mercantile business ; but being entirely 
unacquainted with mercantile affairs, he soon failed. In 1786 
he was appointed a surveyor of Western lands; and in 1787, 
on receiving the same appointment from the Ohio Company, 
led a party of mechanics to the mouth of the Muskingum, 
where they arrived 7 April, 1788, and began the settlement of 
Marietta. Col. Sprout, who was six feet four inches high, 
and well proportioned, received from the Indians, on account 
of his tali and commanding person, the name of " Big Buck- 
eye," — the origin of the phrase now applied to natives of 
Ohio. 

He was fourteen years sheriff of Washington County (i 788- 
1802), and was also colonel of militia, superintending during 
the Indian war the military posts at Belpre, Waterford, and 
Marietta. In disposition and temperament he was cheerful 
and animated ; exceedingly fond of company, quick at rep- 
artee, much attached to horses and dogs, and very kind- 
hearted. His later years were devoted to farming. He d. at 
Marietta in Feb. 1805. 

His descent from Robert'^ Sproaf (or Sprout), one of Cromwell's 
officers, who went to Jamaica, whence in 1660 he came to Scituate, 
Mass., purchased the homestead and other lands in Middleborough 
in 1 71 1, and d. there in Dec. 171 2, and who m. Elizabeth, dau. of 
Henry Sampson of Duxbury, was through Lieut. Ebenezer,^ b. 1676, 
d. 28 Sept. 1726 ; Col. Ebenezer^ (his father), b. 1718, d. 23 Jan. 
1786. He was a colonel of militia, and was for some years a mem- 
ber of the General Court. Mary, sister of Ebenezer and Thomas, 
m. Lieut. Wm. Torrey. a member of the Cincinnati Society. 



458 BIOGRAl'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

His only child Sally m. Judge Solomon Sibley of Detroit. 
They had Ebenezer Sproai Sibley, Col. U. S. A., who served in the 
war with the Florida Indians, Mexican war, and war of the Rebel- 
lion ; and Henry II., b. Detroit, Feb. 181 1, governor of Minnesota. 

THOMAS SPROUT. 

Brother of Ebenezer, whom he succ. in 1809; b. i Oct. 
1756; d. 3 Feb. 1833. He served some time in the army. 
He m. 8 Oct. 1788, Mary Briggs of Pembroke, Mass., and 
had — 

Nabbv, b. II July, 17S9, m. 10 May, 1S13, Peter H. Peirce. 
Earle. 

EARLE SPROUT. 

Son of Lieut. Thomas Sprout, whom he succ. in 1843; 
b. Middleborough, Mass., 5 Sept. 1800; d. 9 May, 1864. 

He m. 9 Feb. 1836, Bethania Weston. They had — 

Mary, b. 3 March, 1837. 

Henry Hamilton. 

Thomas Campbell, b. 20 March, 1849 (Y. C. 1871). 

HENRY HAMILTON SPROAT. 

Eldest son of Earle Sprout, whom he succ. in 1880; was b. 
Middleborough, Mass., 10 April, 1842 ; educated at Harvard; 
was appointed acting assistant surgeon 25th army corps, Feb. 
1865, and after Lee's surrender was sent to Texas, where he 
was discharged in Sept. 1865, on account of sickness. 

He m. I 7 Sept. 1872, Catharine A., dau. of John Thorpe. They 
have — 

Eleanor B., b. ii March, 1874. 

aaflHam Stacg, 

He was b. in Salem, Mass., but removed to New Salem, 
Hampshire Count}', and occupied himself in fnrmin;:;. When 



CINCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. 459 

the news of the Lexington battle arrived, the mihtia company 
in which he was a lieut. assembled and awaited the orders of 
its officers. The captain, who was supposed to be tinctured 
with Toryism, showed some indecision, and the men were 
beginning to murmur, when Lieut. Stacy addressed them. 
Pulling his commission from his pocket, he said, " Fellow- 
soldiers, I don't know exactly how it is with the rest of you, 
but for one I will no longer serv.e a king that murders my 
own countrymen;" and tearing the paper in pieces, he trod 
them under his feet, and took his place in the ranks. The 
company was summarily disbanded, and reorganized on the 
spot. Stacy was unanimously chosen captain, and led a 
small but resolute band to Cambridge. He was com. major 
of Woodbridge's reg. in May; served in the battle of Bun- 
ker Hill; was com. lieut. -col. of Ichabod Alden's (7th) reg. 
I Jan. 1777; and was, 11 Nov. 1778, surprised and captured 
at Cherry Valley, N. Y., by a large force of Indians and 
Tories under Cols. Butler and Brant, and only escaped tor- 
ture at the stake, to which he had already been tied, by 
making the freemason's sign, v.hich was recognized by the 
officer in command. He remained a prisoner over four 
years, when he was exchanged and returned home. In 
1789 he moved with his family to the Ohio, and settled at 
Marietta. Two of his sons, John and Philemon, joined in 
the settlement in Big Bottom, which was surprised by the 
Indians 2 Jan. 1791. John was killed; while Philemon, a 
lad of si.xteen years, was taken prisoner and died in cap- 
tivity. Col. Stacy, who was greatly esteemed for his many 
excellent qualities, d. at Marietta, 1804. His second wife 
was Mrs. Sheffield, a widow from Rhode Island. His 
youngest son, Gideon, settled in New Orleans, and estab- 
lished a ferry across Lake Pontchartrain, and was there 
lost. Col. Stacy left numerous descendants in Washington 
Co., Ohio. 



460 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

SoJjn U. Stafford. 

He was com. ensign, 30 Nov. 1781 ; was in Mellen's (3d) 
reg. in 1783; was a surveyor or engineer after the war, and 
d. ab. 1812 without issue. An uncle, Capt. P. Stafford of 
Newport, R. I., commanded a privateer out of Boston in 
1776. James, his brother, an officer in the Revolutionary 
navy, d. Trenton, N. J., 19 Aug. 1838. Samuel B.Stafford 
of Prince George Co., Md., a son of James and nephew of 
Ensign John R., applied for admission to the Society in 1873 ; 
but his claim for admission was refused, on the ground that 
he was not then and never had been a citizen of Massachu- 
setts, but had resided either in New Jersey or Maryland, 
where there were State Societies of the Cincinnati, to mem- 
bership in one of which he would be eligible. 

Effililliam Stcbrns. 

Of Dedham ; was a member of Paddock's Artillery Co. in 
Boston; com. 1st lieut. in Knox's artillery reg. i Jan. 1776; 
capt. in Lamb's reg. 12 Sept. 1778. He is said to have been 
one of the best shots with heavy ordnance in the army, and 
was in the principal battles from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. 
After the war he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Cole- 
raine, Mass. 

I51)cncKr Stotferr. 

He was of Lynn, Mass., and d. there ab. 1806. Com. licut. 
in Greaton's (3d) reg. 1 Jan. 1777. 

By his wife, Mary Potter, he liad four daughters and two sons — 

George W. 

Eben. 

GEORGE W. STOCKER. 

Eldest son of Ebcnezcr, whom he succ. in 1848; b. L}'nn, 
26 March, 1789; d. I-"almouth, Mc., 5 March, 1867. He was 



CINCINNATI OI'^ MASSACHUSETTS. 46 1 

taken, while in a privateer during the war of 1812, and car- 
ried to HaHfax. On being released, he served in the U. S. 
army till 1817. About 1830 he removed to Falmouth, Me. 

He m. 30 Nov. 1834, Peace Allen of Cumberland. Their dau. 

Abbie, b. 24 Aug. 1835, m. Allen, and has George Lincoln, b. 

22 April, 1865, the only male descendant of George VV. 



Sonatfjan =Stonc. 

He was b. New Braintree, Mass., 175 i ; d. Marietta, Ohio, 
25 March, 1801. Francis, his father, who was a farmer and a 
tanner, lost his life while serving under Wolfe at Quebec. 
Jonathan, after making a two years' whaling voyage, enlisted 
soon after the battle of Lexington, as orderly-scrgt. in E. 
Learned's reg., in which he was made lieut. early in March, 
1776; was com. paymaster of R. Putnam's (5th) reg. i Jan. 
1777; transferred to Bigelow's (iSth) reg. in 1779; and com. 
capt. 25 April, 1781. He was present at the siege of Boston, 
and in the battles preceding the surrender of Burgoyne. 
After the war he settled on a farm in Brookfield, Mass. ; and 
in 1786-87 assisted Gen. Rufus Putnam in surveying Eastern 
lands. In 1788 he sold his farm, and bought two shares of 
the Ohio Company lands, taking his family and household 
goods to Marietta in 1789. In 1792 he was appointed treas- 
urer of Washington County. His farm, which was opposite 
and a little below the mouth of the Little Kenawha, he left to 
his son Col. John Stone. 

He m. in 1776, Susannah, dau. of Daniel Matthews. Her mother 
was a sister of Gen. Rufus Putnam. He left numerous descendants 
in Ohio. Among his children were — 

Benjamin Franklin, of Belpre. 

Samuel, of Licking County. 

Rufus Putnam, who settled on a farm near McConnelsville. 



462 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

:isratf)anicl <Stonc. 

He belonged in Braintree, Mass. ; was com. ensign in 
Paterson's reg. 28 March, 1777; lieut. in Vose's (ist) reg. 
6 Jan. 1780. He fought a duel near West Point, 21 Feb. 
1782, with Capt. Hitchcock, of Vose's reg., who was killed. 
After the war he was capt. of a merchant-vessel. 

IStJcnrjcr Storrr. 

He was b. Wells, Me., 9 July, 1758; d. Gorham, Me., 20 
Jan. 1846. His emigrant ancestor came from flie vicinity of 
London to New England in the seventeenth century. His 
father, Capt. John Storer, m. Mary, sister of Gov. John 
Langdon of New Hampshire. One of Capt. Storer's sons 
died of small-pox in 1776, at Ticonderoga. Ebenezer, the 
fifth son, enlisted, 17 April, 1776, as a corporal in E. Phin- 
ney's reg., after walking the entire distance from Wells to 
the camp at Cambridge ; was promoted to sergt. i Aug. ; 
com. ensign in Samuel Brewer's reg. 13 Nov. 1776; lieut. in 
Sprout's (i2th) reg. 5 July, 1779, and continued in the ser- 
vice until 1783, having also served as paymaster and clothier 
of his regiment. He was in the battles of Long Island, 
White Plains, Trenton, Saratoga, and Monmouth. He was 
a merchant in Portland, Me., 1786-1807; afterward removed 
to the city of New York, and in 1827 signed the roll of the 
N. Y. Society. 

He m. Nov. 1785, Eunice, dau. of Dea. Benj. Titcomb, who d. 
14 Oct. 1798. A second wife and four children survived him. 
The surviving sons were — 

Ebenezer, a physician of New York City. 

William H., a graduate of West Point, served as a lieutenant in 
the U. S. army in the Florida war ; was a farmer and resided in 
Gorham, Me. 
Albert, a merchant of New York. 



CINCINNATI or MASSACHUSETTS. 463 

SiSSilIiam Storefi. 

He was b. in 1740, in tliat part of Ipswich now called Essex. 
Enlisting as a minute-man, he was made a sergt. in Abraham 
Dodge's Co. in Little's reg. early in 1775, and was in the 
battle of Bunker Hill; was com. ensign in the same regi- 
ment in 1776; lieut. and adj. in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. i 
Jan. 1777; capt. 12 Aug. 1779, and served throughout the 
war. One incident of his return home from the army, 
afterward related by him, was that, out of the currency in 
which he had received his hard-earned pay, he gave $100 for 
crossing the VVinnisimmet Ferry. After his second marriage, 
he removed to Newburyport, and sailed thence as master- 
mariner for several years. He d. at sea near Point a Petre, 
Guadaloupe, in 1800. 

By his wife, Mary Choate of Ipswich, he had — 

William, d. unm. 

Susan, m. Moses Foster. 

By his second wife, Lydia Giddings, he had — 

Charles W., b. Essex, 20 Dec. 1786 ; d. 8 Jan. 1845, who m. in 
Sept. 18 15, Elizabeth Burnham (b. 23 Feb. 1789 ; d. 21 March, 
1868). He was a merchant of Newburyport, and resided 
many years in Havana. 

Lydia, m. Abner Caldwell of Newburyport. 

CHARLES WILLIAM .STOREY. 

Eldest son of Charles W., and grandson of Capt. William, 
whom he succ. in 1846; was b. Claremont, N. H., 18 July, 1816. 
He graduated from Harvard Coll. in 1835, and the Law School 
in 1839. He is a member of the Suffolk Bar. From 1846 
to 1850, inclusive, he was Clerk of the Mass. House of Rep- 
resentatives. Later he was Register of the Suffolk Co. 
Court of Insolvency, till it was merged in the Court of Pro- 
bate and Insolvency ; and for a short time, by appointment 



464 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

of the court, he served as Clerk of the Superior Crimnial 
Court. He is a lawyer of unusually clear and discriminating 
judgment, with a firm grasp of legal principles, and a sagacity 
in their application which has made him a safe and valued 
counsellor. In his earlier professional career he was engaged 
in some important controversies, which he conducted with 
marked ability and success. He has been the associate and 
friend of many able men, and not a few of high distinction. 

He m. 30 July, 1842, Elizabeth Moorfield of Hingham, dau. of 
James Moorfield and Nancy Eaton, who was dau. of Lieut. Benj. 
Eaton of Boston, a member of the Society. Their children are — 
Moorfield, counsellor-at-law of Boston, b. Roxbury, 19 March, 

1845, m. 6 Jan. 1870, Anna Gertrude, dau. of Gen. Richard D. 

Cutts of Washington, D. C., has Elizabeth Moorfield, b. 16 Feb. 

1871 ; Gertrude Lucy, b. 21 Oct. 1872 ; Richard Cutts, b. 30 

April, 1875; Katharine, b. 30 Dec. 1879; Charles Moorfield, 

b. 4 March, 1889. 
Mariana Teresa, b. 30 Oct. 1847. 

SUS.\N T.APPAN, b. I Nov. 185 I. 



He was b. Boston, 6 Aug. 1754; ti. Burlington, Pa., 20 
June, 1 791, while serving as U. S. Commissioner to that 
State. He entered the army as a volunteer, in May, 1775; 
joined the Ordnance Department as conductor of military 
stores, in March, 1776; was app. paymaster of Hitchcock's 
(nth) reg. in Sept. 1776; quartermaster to Glover's brigade, 
rank of capt. in June, 1777; deputy quartermaster-general, 
rank of lieut.-col., in Oct. 1777, acting in that capacity until 
Nov. 1780, after which he served in the quartermaster- 
general's department. In Sept. 1781, he was app. aide- 
de-camp to Gen. Lord Stirling, holding that position till 
Stirling's death, in Dec. 1782. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 465 

He was the son of ll'm. Story "^ (see below) by his second wife, 
Joanna Appleton of Ipswich, whom he m. 14 May, 1747. Lieut.- 
Col. Story never married. His successor in the Society is the 
descendant of his brother Elisha. 



JOHN PATTEN STORY. 

Great-grand-nephew of Lieut.-Col. John, whom he succ. 
in 1887; was b. Waukesha, Wis., 25 Aug. 1841. He gradu- 
ated from the U. S. Mihtary Academy, West Point, 23 June, 
1865, and was com. lieut. in the i6th inf. He has served in 
garrison at Madison barracks, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. ; Nash- 
ville, Tenn. ; the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. ; Fortress 
Monroe, Va. ; Fort Warren, Boston harbor, and on special 
duty in Arizona ; and has been attached at various times to 
the Signal Office as assistant and to the Military Academy 
as assistant professor. On 14 Sept. 1883, he was promoted to 
be capt. 4th artillery, and is now (1890) on duty at Fortress 
Monroe as instructor in artillery. His great-grandfather, 
Elisha Story, was surgeon in Col. Little's reg., and was at 
Lexington, Concord, and in the trenches at Bunker Hill. 
Dr. Elisha was one of the " Sons of Liberty" who, disguised 
as Indians, threw the tea overboard in Boston harbor. He 
subsequently led a party of men to a spot on Boston Com- 
mon, near the present Park Street gate ; and while he held a 
pistol at the sentinel's head, two men dragged a field-piece 
from the ground. The piece so taken is one of those placed 
near Bunker Hill Monument. 

Capt. Story's descent from Elisha * Story, who came from Eng- 
land about 1700 and m. for his second wife, Oct. i, 1713, Sarah 
(Cooper) Renouf, widow of Charles Renouf, was through William^ 
b. 25 April, 1720, d. Marblehead, 24 Nov. 1799, who m. 13 
Aug. 1 741 (ist) Elizabeth Marion, b. 22 Sept. 1721, d. 15 Oct. 
1745 ; Dr. Elisha^ b. 3 Dec. 1743, d. Marblehead, 27 Aug. 1805 ; 
who m. 13 Sept. 1767, Ruth Ruddock, b. 5 March, 1746, d. 21 



466 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

INIarch, 1778 ; William,^ b. Maiden, Mass., 18 Aug. 1774, d. Salem, 
Mass., March, 1864, who m. 6 Aug. 1767, Betsey Patten, b. Tops- 
field, 6 Dec. 1775, d. Salem, 22 Feb. 1856; John Patten^ (his 
father), b. 28 May, 1805, d. Waukesha, Wis., 30 March, 1875, '^^ho 
m. 19 Nov. 1840, Elizabeth Quarks, b. Stratham, N. H., 18 May, 
1816. 

Capt. Story m. 10 Sept. 1868, Caroline Sherman, b. Trenton, 
N. J., 20 May, 1848. They have — 

Caroline Sherman, b. 10 Nov. 1870. 

John Patten, b. 19 Aug. 1872. 

Jot Sumntr. 

He was b. Milton, Mass., 23 April, 1754; d. New York, 
16 Sept. 1789. He entered Harvard University in 1774; but 
after the battle of Lexington he joined the army with the 
rank of ensign, having already acquired some knowledge 
of the drill in a college company called the " Marti-Mer- 
curian Band." In 1785 the President and Fellows voted 
that " Major Job Sumner, who was admitted into the uni- 
versity A. D. 1774, and who entered the service of his coun- 
try in the army, by leave from the late President, early in 
the contest between Great Britain and the United States of 
America, and who during the war behaved with reputation 
as a man and as an officer, be admitted to the degree of 
Master of Arts at the next Commencement, and have his 
name inserted in the class to which he belonged." 

He served in Moses Draper's Co. of Gardner's reg. at Bun- 
ker Hill ; and in Bond's reg. at the siege of Boston and the 
invasion of Canada. He was com. capt. in Bailey's (2d) 
reg. to date from i July, 1776; in Greaton's (3d) reg. to 
date from i Jan. 1777, and major to date from I Oct. 1782. 
In the service under Arnold in the flotilla of gunboats on 
Lake Champlain, the Board of War reported that he had 
" in several actions behaved with great spirit and good 
conduct." Later he had command of a company of light 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 467 

infantry, attached to the division of the army then under 
Heath, near West Point. For some days he had charge of 
the guard of Major Andre. He was in the detachment that 
guarded New York during the evacuation by the British 
troops in the autumn of 1783, and was retained in service 
until I July, 1784. In 1785 he was appointed by Congress 
a Commissioner for settHng the accounts between the Con- 
federation and the State of Georgia. His health became 
impaired in this service, and in Sept., 1789, he sailed from 
Savannah for New York. While at sea, he was poisoned 
by eating a fish taken from the copper banks of Cape Hat- 
teras, and died two days after landing in New York. His 
tombstone is in the centre of St. Paul's Churchyard on 
Broadway.* 

His descent from William 1 Sumner of Bicester, County of Ox- 
ford, Eng., bapt. 4 Dec. 1608, who came with his wife Mary and 
three sons, to Dorchester, Mass., about 1635, ^'^^ through Roger ^ 
b. England, deacon of First Church in Milton, d. there 26 May, 1698, 
se. 68, who m. Maryjosselyn of Hingham ; lVilliam,*h. ab. 1673, d. 22 
Dec. 1738, who m. 2 Jan. 1697, Esther Puffer; Seth* b. 15 Dec. 
1 710, d. II Nov. 1771 ; who by his first marriage had Seth, grand- 
father of Maj.-Gen. Edwin V. Sumner; by his second marriage (to 
Lydia Babcock) he had Job, the subject of this notice. 

CHARLES PINXKXEY SU.MXER. 

He was the son of Major Job, whom he succ. in 1803; b. 
Milton, 20 Jan. 1776; d. Boston, 24 April, 1839; H. U. 1796. 
He studied law in the office of Hon. George R. Minot, and 
was admitted to practice in 180 1. He was clerk of the Mass. 
House of Representatives for the years 1806-7 and 1810-II. 
He took an interest in politics at an early age, and was a 

* The materials for these sketches of Major .Sumner, his son, and grandson, 
are taken from Edward L. Pierce's " Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner," 
and " Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography." 



468 BIOGRAI'HICAL NOTICES OF THE 

supporter of the Jefferson party. " His anti-slavery con- 
victions were very strong, and he foretold a violent end to 
slavery in this country." In 1825 Gov. Lincoln appointed 
him Sheriff of Suffolk County, and he held that office until 
a few days before his death. He was a man of considerable 
ability as a writer and speaker, and was frequently called upon 
to deliver addresses on public occasions. 

He m. 25 April, 1810, Relief Jacob of Hanover, Mass., a descend- 
ant of Nicholas Jacob, who came from Hingham, Eng., in 1633, and 
settled first in Watertown. The/ had — 
Charles, ) ^ . Tane. 



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twins. 
Matilda, ) Mary. 

Albert. Horace, b. 25 Dec. 1824. 

Henry. Julia. 

George, b. 5 Feb. 181 7, d. 6 Oct. 1863. 



CHARLES SUMNER. 

Eldest son of Charles Pincknej', whom he succ. in 1S40; 
was b. Boston, 6 Jan. 181 1; d. Washington, D. C, 11 
March, 1874. He entered the Boston Latin -School in 
1 82 1, and passed thence to Harvard University in 1826, 
graduating in 1830. He joined the Harvard Law School 
in 1831; graduated in 1834; continued his studies in 
the office of Benjamin Rand in Boston, and was admit- 
ted to practice in Sept. of that year. In 1835 he was 
appointed by Judge Story a Commissioner of the Circuit 
Court of the United States, and a reporter of judicial opin- 
ions. He was an indefatigable worker at this time. He 
wrote on legal and literary topics, delivered lectures, and 
edited various text-books and law reports. In 1837 he 
went to Europe, where he remained until 1840, stud}'ing 
the institutions of the different countries and making the 
acquaintance of the leaders in thought and action. On his 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 469 

return he began to take an active part in the discussion of 
poUtical questions. His oration before the City Government 
of Boston, 4 July, 1845, upon "The True Grandeur of 
Nations," first revealed his powers as an orator, and made 
him the subject of adulation on the one hand and of abuse 
on the other. He made his first anti-slavery speech in 
Faneuil Hall on 4 Nov. 1845, at a meeting called to protest 
against the admission of Texas. On the nomination of 
Taylor by the Whig Convention in 1848, he with Charles 
Francis Adams, Samuel Hoar, and others, withdrew from 
the Whig party, and took an active part in the organization 
of the Free Soil party. On 24 April, 1851, he was elected 
to the U. S. Senate. His first important speech in that 
body — "Freedom National, Slavery Sectional" — was de- 
livered on 26 Aug. 1852, and gave him a position in the 
front rank of the opponents of the slave power. On 19 and 
20 May, 1856, he delivered a speech on " The Crime against 
Kansas," which contained some sharp comments on Senator 
Butler of South Carolina. Two days after the delivery of 
the speech, Preston S. Brooks, a relative of Butler and a 
Representative from South Carolina, made an assault with 
a heavy cane upon Sumner, as he sat alone in the Senate- 
chamber, and injured him so severely that he was inca- 
pacitated for public service for nearly four years. After his 
re-election in 1857 he sailed for Europe, where he remained 
under treatment until 1859. In the following year, when 
the question of admitting Kansas as a free State came up, 
he delivered, on 4 June, a speech on " The Barbarism of 
Slavery," which showed that his long illness had not affected 
his mental powers or diminished his ardor. During the war 
he held the important position of Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Foreign Affairs, — a position for which he was 
well fitted and in which he acquitted himself with signal 
ability. The part which he took in the impeachment of 



470 EIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Pres. Johnson exhibited that weakness in his conduct as 
a man of affairs which prevented him from occupying a 
position among the leading statesmen of his time. Dur- 
ing Pres. Grant's first term Mr. Sumner found himself in 
opposition to the Administration on two important ques- 
tions, — namely, the Johnson-Clarendon treaty with England, 
and the acquisition of Santo Domingo. He criticised the 
President's methods and advisers with considerable bitter- 
ness, and in consequence was removed by the Republican 
majority in the Senate from the chairmanship of the Com- 
mittee on Foreign Affairs. In the presidential contest of 
1872 he favored the election of Greeley, but did not take 
a prominent part in the canvass. From that time until his 
death he devoted himself to the work of securing equality 
of civil rights for the colored citizens. His death was uni- 
versally lamented. Those who had bitterly opposed him 
on many political questions united with those who had 
been his life- long friends in extolling his integrity of char- 
acter, his firmness of purpose, and his long, faithful, and dis- 
interested public service. His complete works have been 
published in 15 vols.; also a "Memoir and Letters," in 2 
vols, (covering the period to 1845), by Edward L. Pierce. 

At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the MASS. 
Society of the Cinxinkati, 12 March, 1874, Rev. Dr. Lo- 
throp submitted resolutions on the death of Mr. Sumner, 
which were unanimously adopted and entered on the records. 

Mr. Sumner m in Oct. 1866, Mrs. Alice Mason Hooper, 
daughter-in-law of Hon. Samuel Hooper; but for reasons 
never divulged, they separated in the following year. 

EDWIN VOSE SUMNER. 
Son of Maj.-Gen. Edwin V. (b. Boston, 30 Jan. 1797, d. 
Syracuse, N. Y., 21 March, 1863), and great-grand-nephew 
of Major Job, succ. Hon. Charles Sumner in 1890. He was 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 47 I 

b. in Pennsylvania, and was' app. 2d lieut. 1st cav. 5 Aug. 
1861 ; 1st. lieut. 12 Nov. 1861 ; capt. 23 Sept. 1863; major 
5th cav. 4 March, 1879. He served with distinction in the 
war of the Rebellion, and received the following brevet 
appointments: major, 6 May, 1864, for gallant and merito- 
rious services in the battle of Todd's Tavern, Va. ; lieut. -col., 
13 March, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during 
the war; brig.-gen. vols., 28 March, 1865, for gallant and 
meritorious services in the field. He is now (1890) on 
service in the department of the Missouri as inspector of 
rifle practice. 

©alei) Stoan. 

He was b. in Maine, and d. Washington, D. C, 20 Nov. 
1809. Com. ensign in Wesson's (9th) reg. 26 Nov. 1779; in 
M. Jackson's (8th) reg.in 1783 ; app. paymaster of the army, 
rank of major, by Washington, in May, 1792, and filled that 
post until 30 June, 1808, when he resigned in poor health. 

©tfjm'cl JTaQlor. 

He was b. Charlemont, Mass., 1752 ; d. Canandaigua, N. Y., 
15 Aug. 1819. Capt. Othniel Taylor, his father (b. Deerfield, 
1 719, d. 1788), was grandson of John, an early settler of 
Northampton. He was an original settler in Charlemont in 
1742, and in 1743 m. Martha Arms of Deerfield, who d. 1802. 
Othniel was com. 2d lieut. in Marshall's (loth) reg. 30 Jan. 
1777; 1st lieut. and adj. 1778; com. capt. 30 Oct. 1780, 
and retired i Jan. 1783. He commanded a company at the 
capture of Stony Point; was a col. of militia after the war; 
and was an early emigrant to western New York. 

^Tfctius S'afilor. 

He wa« a brother of Othniel ; was com. lieut. in Marshall's 
(lOth) reg. 18 March, 1780; in Vose's (ist) reg. 1783; was 



472 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF' THE 

present at White Plains, Saratoga, and Stony Point; and was 
in 1820 a pensioner living in Charlemont. 

SHilKam JTagloc. 

He was b. Pelham, Mass., and was one of the first settlers 
of Rowe, Mass. He was an orderly-sergt. in Prescott's reg. 
at the battle of Bunker Hill, and had charge of a company in 
the redoubt, which h'e was one of the last to leave ; was com. 
ensign in the same reg. soon afterward ; com. 2d lieut. Baile}''s 
reg. I Jan. 1777; subsequently 1st lieut. and quartermaster, 
and served to the close of the war. His name appears often 
in the town records of Rowe. Though surrounded by Shays's 
men, he was a firm supporter of the government during the 
rebellion of 1786-87. 

His I St wife, by whom he had no issue, was a Nelson. By his 
2d wife, Sarah McCrelis, he had two daughters and two sons, Wil- 
liam and John, neither of whom had issue ; and the family of Capt. 
William is now extinct. 

WILLIAM TAYLOR. 

Eldest son of William, whom he succ. in 1841 ; b. Rowe, 
Mass., 29 March, 1789; d. Southampton, 111., 23 Aug. 1859. 
He was a col of militia; was prominent in town affairs, and 
represented Rowe in the Mass. Legislature. 

James iirijacfjcr, pt.U. 

He was b. Barnstable, Mass., 4 Feb. 1754; d. Plymouth, 
Mass., 24 May, 1844. His mother, Content Norton, was a 
granddaughter of Gov. Coggeshall of Rhode Island. He 
studied medicine under Dr. Abner Hersey of Barnstable; 
joined the hospital department of the army at Cambridge, 
15 July, 1775, as surgeon's mate; was attached in Feb. 



CIXCIXXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 473 

1776, in the same capacity, to Asa Whitcomb's reg., with 
which he served in the Northern campaign ; app. to the 
General Hospital, Northern department, i April, 1777; com. 
surgeon to Gibson's (ist)Va. reg. 10 Nov. 1778; transferred 
to Henry Jackson's (i6th) reg. i July, 1779; to the light in- 
fantry reg. of Scammell during the Yorktown campaign ; and 
on leaving the army, i Jan. 1783, settled in the practice of 
medicine in Plymouth, Mass. Member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Mass. Medical 
Society, and in 18 10 received the honorary degree of 
M.D. from Har\'ard University. He devoted much time 
to literary and antiquarian pursuits, and besides his writings 
on medical and agricultural subjects, was the author of a 
"History of Plymouth;" a "Military Journal kept during 
the Revolutionary War" (a work of great value); and a 
" Medical Biography." 

His descent from Aniotiy ' Thacher, of Salisbury, Eng., of Ipswich, 
Mass., 1635, of Yarmouth, 1639, d. there 1667, and Elizabeth Jones, 
was through y<?//«,^ b. 17 March, 1639, ^- 8 May, 1713, who m. 6 
Nov. 1661, Rebecca, dau. of Josiah Winslow ; CoX.Johu,^ b. 28 Jan. 
1674-75, d. Barnstable, 17 March, 1764, who m. Desire Sturgis 
Dimmock; John* (his father), b. 25 June, 1703, d. Sept. 1785, who 
m. 28 Nov. 1734, Content Norton of Chilmark. 

He m. Susannah Hayward of Bridgewater. Children — 

Betsey, m. Elliot of Georgia, and had Catharine and Jane, 

and (2d) Michael Hodge of Newburyport, and ha^A James T., 
who succ. Dr. Thacher in the Society. 
Susan, m. Capt. Wm. Bartlett of Plymouth, and had /<;//// Bartktt 

of Boston. 
James Hersey, d. young. 

JAMES THACHER HODGE. 

Grandson of Dr. James Thacher, whom he succ. in 1864. 
He was b. Newburj'port, Mass., 12 March, 1816; d. by the 
foundering of a steamer in which he was a passenger, in a 



474 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

gale on Lake Superior, 15 Oct. 1871 ; H. U. 1836. Eminent 
as a mineralogist and geologist, and had been for many years 
occupied in surveys of the coal, copper, and other mineral 
regions of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. As- 
sisted Dr. Jackson in the survey of the public lands of Massa- 
chusetts and Maine, in 1836-38; and Prof H. D. Rogers in 
the survey of Pennsylvania. He contributed to " Appleton's 
New American Cyclopaedia " (1857-63) 1,200 articles, and was 
subsequently engaged in scientific e.xplorations in California, 
Arizona, Ohio, etc. 

He was the son of Michael Hodge, a lawyer of Newburyport, and 
Betsey Hayward Elliot, widow of Daniel A. Elliot of Savannah, and 
dau. of Dr. James and Susannah Thacher of Plymouth, who d. 27 
Feb. 1871. He m. in Plymouth, 3 Feb. 1S46, Mary Spooner, dau. 
of John and Deborah Russell, and had — 

EUZ.4BETH Th.\cher, b. 7 Nov. 1846. 

John Russell. 

James Michael, 3 April, 1850. 

Mary, b. 17 Dec. 1854. 

JOHN RUSSELL HODGE. 

Eldest son of James Thacher Hodge, whom he succ. in 
1875; was b. Plymouth, Mass., 25 Nov. 1847; d. there 12 
April, 1890. He was a manufacturer, and at the time of his 
death was a citizen of Atlanta, Ga. 

He m. 26 Oct. 1881, Harriet B., dau. of Seth Evans. They 
have — 

Seth Evans, b. 30 Sept. 1882. 
James Thacher, b. 15 Jan. 18S7. 

Katljam'fl i!ri)atl)cr. 

He was a son of the distinguished patriot, Oxenbridge 
Thacher and Sarah (Kent) Thacher, and was a brother of 
Rev. Peter and Rev. Thomas Thacher. His great-grand- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 475 

mother, Theodora, was dau. of Rev. John Oxcnbridge, who 
quitted England for conscience' sake. He was com. ensign 
in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. in 1778; heut. 9th reg. 7 Oct. 
1781 ; in Tapper's (6th) reg. in 1783. In April, 1780, he 
was captured by the enemy. He was of Dunstable, and d. 
unm. before July, 1809. 

His descent from Rev. Thomas ^ Thachcr, b. England, i May, 
1620, came to New England with his uncle i\ntony in 1635, pastor of 
Old South Church, Boston, from 1670 to his d. 15 Oct. 1678, who 
m. Eliza, dau. of Rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury, was through 
Rev. Peter,^ of Milton, b. Salem, 18 July, 1651, H. U. 1671, d. 17 
Dec. 1727, who m. 21 Nov. 1677, Theodora Oxenbridge ; Oxen- 
bridge^'^. 17 May, 1679; H. U. 1698, d. 19 Oct. 1772; Oxen- 
bridge, Jr^ (his father) b. 1720, H. U. 1738, d. 8 July, 1765. 

REV. THOMAS THACHER. 

He was an elder brother of Nathaniel, whom he succ. in 
1812; H. U. 1775. He was the second son of Judge Oxen- 
bridge Thacher, and was settled pastor of the Third Church, 
Dedham, 7 June, 1780, continuing until his d. 19 Oct. 1812, 
ae. 56. He delivered a eulogy on Washington, 22 Feb. 1800. 
Several of his discourses were printed ; among them a century 
sermon in 1801. He was a man of somewhat unpolished 
manners, and was never married. 

GEORGE McDONOGH THACHER. 

Eldest son of Judge Peter O. Thacher, who was second 
son of Rev. Peter, brother of Lieut. Nathaniel and Rev. 
Thomas, whom he succ. in 1854; b. Boston, 5 March, 
1809; d. there 2 June, 1858. He was for many years 
Consul for Denmark in Boston, and a merchant there. His 
mother was Charlotte \. McDonogh. His wife was Sarah E. 
W^illiams. 



476 BlOGRArHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

GEORGE WASHINGTON THACHER. 

Only son of George M. Thacher, whom he succ. in i860; 
b. Boston, 16 June, 1837; d. Fort Delaware, 13 Sept. 1864. 
Being the only son of a widow, the law exempted him from 
serving in the army; hut he joined the 6th Mass. vols., and 
laid down his life in the service of his country. 

CHARLES THACHER. 

He was son of Charles, a merchant of Boston, and grand- 
son of Rev. Peter, brother of Nathaniel Thacher, and succ. 
George W. Thacher in 1865. He was b. Boston, 15 April, 
1815; d. there, unm., 23 March, 1869. Educated at the 
Boston Latin School and at H. U. (1834); studied medicine 
in Boston and in Paris (1837-39), and practised some years; 
but was afterward a wholesale dealer in periodical literature, 
— a business which was finally merged in the American 
News Co. He died in the same house that had been for fifty 
years his home. He had a twin brother, William, and a 
sister, Mrs. M. E. Holmes. 

JJoljn 3rijomas. 

He was the son of Dr. William Thomas ; was b. Plymouth, 
Mass., I April, 1758; d. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 30 Oct. 1819. 
He joined the army as surgeon's mate at Cambridge in 1775 ; 
was com. surgeon of Wesson's (9th) reg. I Jan. 1777; in 8th 
reg. in 1783. After the war he settled in the practice of 
medicine at Poughkeepsie. He left a son and a daughter. 
His son, William B., was adm. to the N. Y. Society in 1835, 
in right of his father's membership in the Mass. Society. 
Henry Livingston, eldest son of William B., was elected in 
1885 a member of the Mass. Society, and also of the N. Y. 
Society. As he was a resident of New York, he chose to 
retain his membership there. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 477 

He was a son of Dr. William (b. Bo,ston, 1718, d. 1804) and 
brother of Surgeon John; was b. Plymouth, Mass., 175S; d. 
there 19 Aug. 1838. He was a cooper by trade, and before 
the war was a member of Paddock's artillery Co. of Boston ; 
com. 2d licut. in Knox's artillery, 16 March, 1776; capt. in 
Lamb's (2d) reg. of artillery, 26 Oct. 1779, and served at 
Yorktown. Recommended by Gen. Knox as a major in the 
army in 1798. 

JOHN BOIES THOMAS. 

Son of Judge Joshua, brother of Capt. Joseph, whom he 
succ. in 1849; b. Plymouth, Mass., 28 July, 1787; d. there 
2 Dec. 1852; H. U. 1806. He was a lawyer; was Clerk of 
the Courts of Plymouth County for about thirty-eight years; 
was seventeen years President of the Old Colony Bank, and 
was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820. 

JOHN THOMAS STODDARD. 

Great-grand-nephew of Capt. Joseph and eldest grandson 
of John Boies Thomas, whom he succ. in 1862; was b. Ply- 
mouth, Mass., 24 Jan. 1838; H. U. 1858. He is engaged in 
manufacturing enterprises, and resides in Plymouth. 

He m. 19 Oct. 1864, Elizabeth, dau. of Jeremiah Farris. Chil- 
dren — 

Henry F.arris, b. 5 Feb. 1866. 
Mary Le Baron, b. 11 May, 1867. 

STIjalr^cus JE'Jjomp.son. 

He was b. Brimfield, Mass., ab. 1746; d. Lisle, Broome 
Co., N. Y., 1 819. After studying medicine, he removed to 
Lenox; served as a surgeon in the army during the Revo- 
lution, and was present at Trenton, Brandywine, and German- 



47S inOGRAPHlCAL NOTICES OF THE 

town, and the surrender at Yorktown. He subsequently 
practised medicine at Lisle until his death. 

He m. Betty (Whitlock), widow of Col. Brewer of the Revolu- 
tionary army, and had four sons — 

Jonathan, who with his entire family d. of yellow fever at Natchez, 
Miss., in 1818. 

William, b. Lenox, Mass., 15 Jan. 17S6, physician, who m. Lucy, 
dau. of Major Manning, d. Pontiac, Mich., 10 July, 1867. Had 
five sons and two daughters, of whom Charles H. was one. 

CHARLES HENRY THOMPSON. 

Eldest son of William, and eldest surviving grandson of 
Dr. Thaddeus, whom he succ. in 1873; was b. Lisle, N. Y., 
20 Aug. 1809; d. ab. 1883. He was a physician. 

James ^TisTialc. 

He was com. ensign in Heath's reg. in Ma}-, 1775 ; lieut. 
in Bond's, afterward Greaton's, 1775-76; at the siege of 
Boston and invasion of Canada; com. ist lieut. of Greaton's 
(3d) reg. I April, 1777; capt. 3 May, 1778; present at the 
surrender of Burgoyne, and served through the war. He 
d. Walpole, Mass, 13 Nov. 1832, ae. 86. His wife Sybil, dau. 
of Seth Clark of Medficld, d. there 18 March, 1785, ae. 28. 

JMtlliam Corrcg. 

Son of William, of Plymouth; b. 30 Oct. 1751; d. Pem- 
broke, Mass., 22 Oct. 1828. He was a sergeant in Capt. 
Freedom Chamberlin's Co., Bailey's reg., when it responded 
to the alarm on 19 April, 1775, and is put down as "of 
Pembroke." On I Jan. 1777, he was com. capt. in the same 
reg., and served through the war, after which he settled in 
Pembroke, Mass. 

He was a descendant of Lieut. James Torrey of Scituate, 1640. 

He m. I Feb. 1784, Mary, sister of Col. Ebenezer Sprout. Chil- 
dren : William ; Mary ; Elizabeth ; B.cthshf.ba ; and Haviuwd. 



CINCINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 479 



WILLIAM TORREY. 

Eldest son of Lieut. William, whom he succ. in 1846; b. 
Pembroke, Mass., il May, 1785; d. there 29 March, 1867. 
He removed to Bath, Me., in 1806, and was engaged for 
many years in mercantile business. He held a number of 
public offices, — Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, 
Spanish Consular Agent for the district of Bath, and City 
Clerk of Bath until 1854, when he was stricken with paralysis. 
He was capt. of an infantry Co. stationed at Cox's Head, 
mouth of the Kennebec, during the war of 181 2. 

He had four children ; namely, Willu.m ; Joseph Henrv ; Abi- 
c.Mh ; and M.\Ry Elizabeth. 

WILLIAM TORREY. 

Eldest son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1874, was 
b. Bath, Me., 20 Nov. 181 1. He is a shipmaster, and resides 
in Bath. 

He m. 7 Feb. 1839, Eleanor F., dau. of John Patten. No children. 
A son of Joseph Henry, the younger brother of William, is now 

living in Spencer, Mass. B. B. Torrey and Herbert Torrey, 

sons of Haviland, are also living. 

SSatUiam ^Torres. 

He was probably the William Torrey, Jr.. of Mendon, who 
appears on the muster-roll of Capt. John Albee's Co., which 
responded to the alarm on 19 April, 1775. He was com. 
lieut. in Hazen's reg. i Jan. 1777, and served through the 
war. He was transferred to the N. Y. Society in 1803, and 
d. N. Y. City, 8 Oct. 183 1.* 

* The .signatures of the two officers — the lient. and adj. in Bailey's reg. and 
the lieut. in Hazen's — as they appear on the autograph list of the Mass. Societv, 
are, at first sight, strikingly alike ; but a critical examination of the names, and 



4S0 LIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



3atoii JTotou. 

He was b. Oxford, Mass., 20 Oct. 1755. Ensign in Shep- 
ard's (4th) reg. ; com. lieut. 27 May, 17S2, and was in 
Sprout's (2d) reg. 1783. He was a man of elegant person 
and accomplishments, and his love of military life surpassed 
that of either of his brothers Salem or Sylvanus, both of 
whom served in the Revolutionary army. Dazzled by the 
victories of Bonaparte in Italy in 1797, he left home with 
the intention of joining him, declaring that it was the highest 
ambition of his life to serve with such a chief, and was never 
afterward heard from. 

His descent from WU/iaiii^ of Salem, 1640, was through Jacob, 
and Catharine SyvaonAi; John, ^ fe. 1658, d. 1740; Deacon y^wa- 
than,'^ b. 1691, d. 1771 ; Jacob^ (his father). 

David, son of Shippie Townsend (who d. 31 Aug. 1798), 
by his second wife, Mrs. Ann Balch, dau. of Deacon Jona- 
than Kettell of Charlestown, Mass., was b. in Boston, 7 Jan. 

especially of the statement of rank attached, shows certain marked differences. 
That there were two lieutenants of the same name in the service, the pay-rolls 
at the State House in Boston show beyond a question ; that the two officers 
joined the Mass. Society seems to be certain from the fact that each contributed 
a month's pay to the principal fund of the Society, and that the two names are 
carried through all the early accounts and records. The officer who was iu 
Bailey's rejr. entered the service from Pembroke, Mass.. returned there as soon 
as the war was over, and lived there during the remainder of his life. His son 
succeeded him in the Mass. Society, and his grandson is now a member. The 
signature of the Lient. Torrey who joined the N. Y. Society in 1803 (a fac- 
simile is given in the "Institution" recently published by the N. Y. Society) 
is exactly the same as the signature of " William Torrey, Lieut." in the autogia])h 
list of the Mass Society. That proves conclusively that the signatures to the 
Mass. list were not written by the same hand, as it is absolutely certain that the 
Torrey who was lieut. and adj. in Bailey's reg. never lived in New York and 
never joined the N. Y. Society. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 48 1 

1753, and d. there 13 April, 1829. He graduated at Harvard 
University in 1770, receiving from that institution the degree 
of M.D. in 1813. 

Dr. Townsend studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren, 
and was at Cambridge in 1775. After the battle of Bunker 
Hill, he assisted in caring for the wounded, and remained 
at Cambridge until commissioned by the colony of Massa- 
chusetts Bay, 12 July, 1 775, as surgeon in Col. Jonathan 
Brewer's reg. He was commissioned, i Jan. 1776, surgeon 
6th reg. (Col. Asa Whitcomb). In March, 1777, he was 
appointed senior surgeon in the General Hospital of the 
Northern department with the army for the invasion of 
Canada. 

On the reorganization of the army, under the resolve of 
Congress, to take effect i Jan. 1781, he received a com- 
mission, 10 Oct. 1780, signed by S. Huntington, President 
of Congress. Reappointed, 9 Oct. 1781, to date 10 Oct. 
1780, signed by Thomas McKean, President of Congress, 
as surgeon-general of the Hospital Department. Under an- 
other organization he received an appointment in 1782 from 
Gen. Lincoln, Secretary of War. He remained with the army 
till its final disbandment at Newburgh, after which he prac- 
tised his profession with reputation in Boston for many 
years. He was SECRETARY of the Society in 1807-21; 
Vice-Pres. 1821-25; President, 1825-29. Dr. Townsend 
m. 24 May, 1785, Elizabeth Davis, by whom he had nine 
children. 

He was a descendant of Andrnv ' Toivnsend, who came from 
Devonshire, Eng., and settled in Lynn, Mass. Daviii^ the fourth 
son of Andrew, b. 1691, d. 30 Nov. 1754, m. i July, 1714, Mabel, 
dau. of Thomas Shippie. The fifth son of David''- was Shippie^ who 
m. for his second wife, Mrs. Ann Balch, dau. of Deacon Jonathan 
Kettell of Charlestown, Mass., by whom he had Dr. David.* Shippie 
Townsend d. 31 Aug. 1798. 

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482 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



DAVID S* TOWNSEND. 

Eldest son of Dr. David, whom he succ. in 1830; b. 
Boston, 9 April, 1790; d. there 28 Jan. 1853; H. U. 1809. 
Com. 1st lieut. 9th U. S. inf. 6 July, 1812; capt. 13 May, 
1813; lost his right leg at Chrystler's Fields, Canada, 11 
Nov. 1813; major and acting adj.-gen. 27 July, 1814; bat- 
talion paymaster, 29 April, 1816; paymaster. May, 182 1. 
Assist. Treas. of the Society, 1841-45; Treasurer, 
1845-47. He m. 7 Nov. 1816, Eliza, dau. of Hon. Elbridge 
Gerry, by whom he had five children. 

EDWARD DAVIS TOWNSEND. 

Son of David S, whom he succ. in 1870; b. Boston, 22 
Aug. 1817; West Point Military Academy, and com. 2d lieut. 
2d U. S. artillery, l July, 1837; 1st lieut. 16 Sept. 1838; adj. 
7 July, 1838; assist, adj.-gen., rank of capt., 8 Aug. 1846; 
major, 15 July, 1852; lieut.-col. 7 March, 1861 ; col. 3 Aug. 
1 861 ; adj.-gen. U. S. A., rank of brig.-gen., 22 Feb. 1869. 
He served in Florida during the war with the Seminoles, 
1837-38; and during the Rebellion of the seceding States as 
chief-of-staff to Lieut.-Gen. Scott, 7 March-i Nov. 1861 ; as 
assist, adj.-gen. 1861-63, ^^'^ ^s acting adj.-gen. of the army, 
1863-65. Brevet-brig.-gen. U. S. A. 24 Sept. 1864; and 
brevet-maj.-gen. U. S. A. 13 March, 1865, for faithful, meri- 
torious, and distinguished service during the Rebellion. He 
was placed on the retired list of the army, 15 June, 1880. 

He m. 9 May, 1848, Ann Overing, dau. of Col. R. D. Wainwright, 
U. S. marine corps. Children — 

Thomas Gerry, b. 9 Nov. 1849, now ist lieut. 6th U. S. inf. 

* Not .in initial, but emploved to distinguish him from otliers bearing the 
name of David Townsend. Hon. Franklin B Hough and Isaac P Davis are 
instances of a similar kind. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 483 

Edward David, b. 19 Dec. 1851. 
Joanna Auchmuty, b. i Jan. 1858. 
Henrietta Wainwright, b. 20 July, 1859. 
Eliza Maria, b. 27 Aug. 1S61. 

SIBilUam JJTrcatitoEU. 

He was of Worcester, and d. there in April, 1795. He 
was com. capt.-lieut. in Knox's artillery, i Jan. 1776; capt. 
in Crane's artillery, i Jan. 1777, and at the close of the war 
was the oldest capt. in the line of artillery. He served at 
the siege of Boston, battle of Long Island, and in many 
engagements during the war. His widow Mary, b. 1747, 
was living in 1830. His daughters ABIGAIL and ELIZA 
were living in Boston in 1850. 

ILcmucl ijrrcstott.* 

He was b. in 175 1; d. Lubec, Me., 10 Aug. 1826. He 
served his time with Hopestill Capen, a carpenter in Bos- 
ton, and was orderly-sergeant of Capt. Joseph Peirce's Co. 
of Boston " Grenadiers," and with Lieut. Henry (after- 
ward Gen.) Knox brought it to a high state of proficiency. 
He was a capt. in Jonathan Brewer's reg. at Bunker Hill ; 
was com. major of Henry Jackson's (i6th) reg. 20 May, 
1778, and served through the war with the reputation of an 
excellent disciplinarian and an active and vigilant officer. 
On 3 Oct. 178 1, he with 100 men crossed the Sound to 
Long Island, surprised Fort Slongo, and brought off its 
garrison with a quantity of arms, ammunition, clothing, 
etc. He commanded a battalion of light infantry under La 
Fayette, enjoyed the confidence of Washington, and was an 
upright, humane, and patriotic man. In 1783 he was in 

* On the autograph list the name is signed " Lem Trescott." He signed the 
company returns in 1775 " Lemuel Tresscott." 



484 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Brooks's reg. ; app. major 2d U. S. inf. 4 March ; resigned, 
28 Dec. 1791 ; app. col. of inf. 9 April, 18 12, — declined; 
Collector of U. S. Revenue for Machias, Me., 1808-11; 
and of Passamaquoddy, Me., i8i2-i8. 

Probably a descendant of IVilliam ' Trescott, a freeman of Dor- 
chester in 1643, through yf/i//,'- who d. there in 1741, se. 89. 

His ist wife, Susannah, d. 14 July, 1804, se. 50 ; Rebecca, his 2d 
wife, d. Lubec, Me., 21 April, 1836, ae. 74. 

Joljn iCrottEC. 

He was ensign in Joseph Read's reg. at the siege of 
Boston; com. lieut. and adj. in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. 11 
June, 1777; capt. 18 Oct. 1780. D. before 1812. 

Hutljcr JTrotoljn'trijt. 

He was b. Framingham, Mass., 3 June, 1756; d. Albany, 
N. Y., 19 Feb. 1802; com. lieut. in Brooks's (7th) reg. i Jan. 
1777; adj. (same reg.) 1780-S3; brig, quartermaster, 1783. 

His descent from Thomas^ who came from Taunton, Eng., to Dor- 
chester, as early as 1636, settled in New Haven in 1639, returned 
to England, and d. Taunton, 7 Feb. 1672, was through /(Z/z/w,^ b. Dor- 
chester, 1636, d. 22 May, 1717, who m. 30 Jan. 1674, Margaret, 
dau. of Deacon John Jackson ; Thomas^ b. 9 Dec. 1677, d. ab. 
1725, in New London ; _/('/;;?/ b. 1 701-2, d. 10 May, 1772, and 
Mehetable Eaton; Thomas^ (his father), b. i .'\i;ril, 1734, d. 12 
Jan. 1804, and Hannah Perry. 

He m. Elizabeth, d.iu. of Major John Tillman, who d. Detroit, Oct. 
1845, se. 84. Children — 

H.w^.^H, b. 18 June, 1782, d. 1816. 

Edmund A., b. 14 Dec. 1784, d. 1816. 

Jonathan Valentine, b. 14 Feb. 1787, d. 1787. 

Eliza S.,b. 18 Dec. 1788. 

Jonathan Thonus, b. 21 March, 1791, d. 1815. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 485 

Stephex V.4N R., b. 4 July, i 794. 

Margaret, b. 24 June, 1796, d. 1800. 

Ann Maru, b. 6 Sept. 1798, d. 1800. 

Charles C, b. 1800, was living in Detroit in 1872. 

Jostpi) SJTucfecr. 

On 19 Aug. 1775, he was app. 2d lieut. in Capt. Francis 
Shaw's Co. to be raised in Gouldsborough, Narraguagus, 
Number Four (now Harrington) and Pleasant River, for the 
defence of the sea-coast (District of Maine) ; was com. 
ensign in Brooks's (7th) reg. in 1777; lieut. 9 Feb. 1780, 
and was paymaster in 1780-83. During the war he visited 
York, Me., in company with his relative, Commodore Samuel 
Tucker, then superintending the construction of a 20 gun- 
ship called the " Minerva," which was intended by her 
owner, Capt. John Stone, for a privateer. He there made 
the acquaintance of Mary, dau. of Capt. Stone, who was a 
descendant on her mother's side from Gov. Bradstreet 01 
Massachusetts, married her, and purchasing the wharf and 
other property of his father-in-law remained there and estab- 
lished himself in business. He was Collector of Customs 
for the Port of York, from 1793 to 1804; Town Treasurer 
for many years and until his death (about 1812), and influ- 
ential in town affairs. 

Of the two daughters and only children of Lieut. Tucker, Mary 
Ann, the younger, m. Louis A. de Creney, a French political refugee 
and a man of education, and d. 1836 ; the elder, Nancy Gale, m. 
7 Sept. 1 8 10, Judge William Pitt Preble, who d. Portland, Me., 11 
Oct. 1857, se. 73, and had two daughters and one son. 

WILLIAM PITT PREBLE. 

Grandson of Lieut. Joseph Tucker, whom he succ. in 1845 ! 
was b. Portland, Me., 15 April, 1819. He was educated at 
Exeter, Bowdoin College, and the Harvard Law School, 



486 BIOGKArillCAL NOTICES OF THE 

and is a lawyer by profession. He was Clerk of the District 
Court of the United States for the District of Maine from 
I Aug. 1849, to I July, 1887, when he resigned; was Grand 
Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Maine for three 
years. He resides in Cambridge, Mass. 

His descent from Al>raham'^ Preble of Scituate, Mass., 1636, and 
Judith, dau. of Nathaniel Tilden of Scituate (Abraham moved to 
York, Me., then called " Gorgeana," or " Agamenticus," about 1641, 
and was the first mayor), was through Abraham^ b. York, 1642, 
d. 14 Oct. 1 714, who m. Hannah Kelly, 1685 ; Samuel^ b. York, 19 
April, 1699, d. 1746, who m. Sarah Muchmore from the Isles of 
Shoals, 1725 ; Col. Esaias* b. York, 26 April, 1742, d. 1813, who 
m. 30 June, 1766, Lydia, dau. of Edward Ingraham ; Judge William 
Pitt^ (his father), b. York, 27 Nov. 1783, d. 11 Oct. 1857, who 
m. 7 Sept. 1 8 10, Nancy Gale, eldest dau. of Lieut. Joseph Tucker 
and his wife Mary, dau. of Capt. John Stone. Capt. John Stone was 
a grandson of Abraham and Hannah Preble. 

William Pitt Preble, son of Judge Preble, m. i July, 1846, Harriet 
Tracy, dau. of John Mussey of Portland. Children — 

Edith, b. Portland, 22 April, 1847, d. 29 Nov. 1848. 

John Mussey, b. Portland, 19 Dec. 1850, d. 4 Nov. 1851. 

Henry, b. Portland, 25 April, 1853. 

William Put, b. Portland, i Oct. 1854. 

Wallace, b. Portland, 1 7 Aug. 1 85 7. 

Ernest, b. Portland, 5 June, i860, d. 8 Oct. i860. 

ffi2B(lHcim JTutror. 

He was b. Boston, 28 March, 1750; d. there 8 July, 18 19; 
H. U. 1769. Deacon John Tudor, his father (b. near Exeter, 
Eng., 18 Sept. 1709; d. Boston, 18 March, 1795, m. Jane 
Varncy), was for about forty-two years Treasurer of the 
Second (Old North) Church, Boston, and d. in 1796, st. 86. 
He was by trade a baker, and was an honorable and useful 
citizen. William, after his graduation, studied law with John 
Adams; was admitted to the bar, 27 July, 1772, and became 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 48 7 

eminent in the profession. As colonel and judge-advocate- 
general of the army, he was, from 29 July, 1775, to 1778, at- 
tached to the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, after which he 
resumed practice in his native city. In 1777 he conducted 
with marked ability the defence of Col. David Henley, who 
had charge of the Saratoga prisoners and who was arrested 
on the accusation of Gen. Burgoyne for military oppression, 
and tried by a court-martial. Henley was acquitted, in 
spite of the eloquence of Burgoyne, who did his utmost to 
secure a conviction.* Col. Tudor was a member of the Mass. 
House of Representatives, 1791-95, and of the Senate 1801-3; 
Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1808 and 1809; Vice-Pres. 
of the Society of the Cincinnati in i8i 1-19, and delivered 
the 4th of July oration before that body in 1790. He was 
one of the founders of the Mass. Historical Society; and the 
" first meeting " was held at his house in Court Street, on 
24 Jan. 1 791. He delivered a spirited oration on the Boston 
Massacre, 5 March, 1779, and a discourse before the Mass. 
Charitable Fire Society in 1798. 

Col. Tudor m. 5 March, 1778, Delia Jarvis, who d. Washington, 
D. C, 17 Sept. 1843, ae. 90. They had three sons and two 
daughters, — one of whom m. Robert Hallowell, Gardiner ; the 
other m. Charles Stewart, afterward commodore U. S. N. 

WILLIAM TUDOR. 

Eldest son of William, whom he succ. in 1820; b. Boston, 
28 Jan. 1779; d. Rio Janeiro, 9 March, 1830; H. U. 1796. 
He founded in Dec. 1814, and for some time edited, the 

* Henley, who was an e.xcitable man, wounded one of the prisoners, named 
Reeve, who had been insolent to him. Col. Tudor in his closing argument 
said : " It has been said that Reeve's behavior was only firm, not insolent. Brit- 
ish firmness often so nearly approaches insoience that Europeans as well as 
Americans have been very apt to confound them." 

A memoir of Col. Tudor, written by his son, is printed in the Coll. Mass. 
Historical Society, 2d ser. vol. viii. pp. 285-325 



4o8 BIOGRArillCAL NOTICES OF THE 

" North American Review," which was, for nearly half a cen- 
tury, the leading American critical periodical. He acted for 
a time as the agent of his brother Frederic, founder of the 
ice-traffic, and was afterward engaged in other commercial 
transactions in Europe. He was one of the founders of the 
Boston Athenaeum in 1807, and took the initiative in the 
erection of Bunker Hill Monument. He was a member of 
the Mass. Legislature in 1810, 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1820; 
in 1823 was app. consul at Lima; and in 1827 was app. cliarg^ 
d'affaires at the court of Brazil, where he negotiated a treaty, 
— his last public service. In 1809 he delivered the 4th of 
July oration in Boston, and five years afterward he delivered 
an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge 
on " The Aborigines," which was printed in the second vol- 
ume of the " North American Review." Besides his con- 
tributions to periodical literature, he was the author of 
" Letters on the Eastern States," " Life of James Otis," and 
" Gebel Teir." A notice and portrait of William Tudor, Jr., 
will be found in the Proceedings of the Mass. Historical So- 
ciety, vol. i. pp. 333-337- 

FREDERIC TUDOR. 

Brother of William, whom he succ. in 1834; b. 4 Sept. 
1783; d. 6 Feb. 1864. 

" His life, from his earliest manhood, was one of great intellectual 
as well as commercial activity. As the founder of the ice-trade, he 
not only commenced an enterprise which added a new subject of 
export and a new source of wealth to our country, — imparting a 
value to that which had no value before, and affording lucrative 
employment to great numbers of laborers at home and abroad, — 
but he established a claim, which will not be forgotten in the history 
of commerce, to be regarded as a benefactor of mankind, by sup- 
plying an article not of luxury only for the wealthy and the well, 
but of unspeakable comfort and refreshment for the sick and en- 



CINCINNATI OP' MASSACHUSETTS. 489 

feeble;! in tropical climes, and which has already become one of the 
necessities of life for all who have enjoyed it in any clime. 

"As a cultivator of fruits and flowers, and trees too, at Nahant, 
he not only placed himself in the front rank of horticulturists, but he 
gave a signal instance of how much could be done by ingenuity, 
perseverance, and skill in overcoming the most formidable obstacles 
of soil and climate, and obtaining a victory over Nature herself." * 

FREDERIC TUDOR. 

Eldest .son of the preceding, whom he succ. in 1874; was 
b. Boston, Mass., 1 1 Feb. 1845 ; H. U. 1867. He is a civil en- 
gineer, devoting himself especially to the sanitary branches. 

He m. 24 June, 1867, Louisa, adopted dau. of Joseph Simes. 

Children — 
Frederic, b. 26 March, 1869. 
Marie Louise, b. 25 July, 1870. 
Emma Cecilia, b. 25 March, 1872. 
EuPHEMiA, b. 7 Sept. 1875. 
Rosamond, b. 20 June, 1878. 

He was b. m that part of Stoughton, Mass., now called 
Sharon, in 1738, being the youngest of eight children of his 
parents, seven of whom were sons. His father died when he 
was quite young, and he was apprenticed to a tanner in Dor- 
chester named Withington. At sixteen he went to Easton, 
and labored on a farm until after his marriage in 1762, when 
he removed to Chesterfield. He served two or three years 
as a private soldier in the French war (1757-63), and during 
two or three winters kept a district school in Easton. On 
the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he was a lieut. 
of militia. Joining the army in Cambridge as major of 

* From remarks of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, in announcing his death to 
the Mass. Historical .Society. Proceedings, vol, vii. pp. 304- J07. 



490 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Fellows's reg. in Ma)', 1775, he with 300 men went to Light- 
house Island, 31 July, 1775; attacked the British guard, 
which was killed or captured; and burned all the buildings. 
Com. lieut.-col. of Ward's reg. 4 Nov. 1775 ; of John Bailey's 
reg. I Nov. 1776; col. nth reg. 7 July, 1777 ; transferred to the 
loth, 8 Jan. 1 781, and to the 6th on 30 Oct. 1782. He served 
at the siege of Boston and in the campaign against Burgoyne, 
and was at the battle of Monmouth, w^here he had a horse 
killed under him; was app. inspector of Paterson's brigade, 
29 March, 1778; and at the close of the w^ar was made a 
brig.-gen. by brevet. After the war he returned to Chester- 
field, which he represented in the Mass. Legislature. With 
Gen. Rufus Putnam he originated and founded the " Ohio 
Company," and made the first surveys of lands northwest of 
the Ohio in 1786. Returning from this duty he actively as- 
sisted Gen. Shepard in quelling Shays's rebellion. He re- 
moved with his family to Marietta, O., 9 Aug. 1788; engaged 
actively in promoting the plans and interests of the Ohio 
Company, and was a justice of the quorum of the first civil 
court in the Northwest Territory from 9 Sept. 1788, to his 
death in June, 1792. 

He m. at Easton, 18 Nov. 1762, Huldah White, who d. Spring- 
field, now Putnam, O., 21 Feb. 1812. They had — 
Anselm. 
Edward White, brig.-gen. of Ohio vols., ser\'ing under Harrison 

in 1812, who d. Gallipolis, O., 1823. 
Col. Benjamin, d. Putnam, O., 1815, who left a son, Eihvard U'., 

of Putnam, O. 
RowENA, m. Winthrop Sargent, and d. Marietta, O., i 790. 
SopHLA, m. Nathaniel Wyllis of Connecticut, d. Oct. 1 789. 
Minerva, m. Col. Ichabod Nye, d. Marietta, April, 1836. 

SInscIm JTupprr. 

Eldest son of Gen. Benjamin Tuppcr; b. Chesterfield, 
Mass., 1763; d. Marietta, O., 25 Dec. 1808. He was com. 



CINCINNATI OK MASSACHUSETTS. Jgi 

lieut. and adj. in his father's (i ith) reg. 26 Sept. 1780 ; served 
through the war, and removed to Ohio in 1788. 

Jonatt)an Curnrr. 

He was b. Scituate, Mass., 1743 ; d. there Nov. 1821 ; lieut. 
in Marshall's (lOth) reg. 1777; com. capt. 4 Oct. 1780; in 
Putnam's (jth) reg. in 1783. He received a pension from 
the Government. 

His descent from Humphrey^ Turner of Plymouth, 1628, after- 
ward of Scituate, d. 1673, and Lydia Garner, was through yi?/;«,^ Sen., 
b. England, m. 12 Nov. 1645, Mary, dau. of Jonathan Brewster; 
Jonathan^ b. 20 Sept. 1646, who m. Martha, dau. of Elisha Bes- 
bedge ; Jesse* (his father). 

PEREZ TURNER. 

Eldest son of Perez (b. 8 Dec. 1772), son of Jonathan, 
whom he succ. in 1827; was b. Scituate, 12 June, 1804; d. 
there 17 Nov. 1878. He was a farmer, and lived in Scituate. 
His son John Henry Turner (b. 7 Feb. 1835, d. 13 Aug. 
1883), served in the war of the Rebellion as a private in the 
43d Mass. vols. 

GEORGE HENRY TURNER. 

Eldest son of John Henry; succ. his grandfather Perez in 
1885; was b. Scituate, 13 Aug. 1855. He is a shoemaker, 
and lives in Norwell, Mass. 

He m. 5 Oct. 1881, Caroline E., dau. of George H. Briggs. They 
have — 

Carrie Louisa, b. 8 Oct. 1883. 

Jttarlfirs JTurncc. 

He was the son of Capt. Marlboro and Mary (Curtis) 
Turner, of Hanover, Mass.; was bapt. 30 July, 1757, and was 



492 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

a pensioner, living in 1824. Ensign in Bailey's (2d) reg. i 
Jan. 1777; com. lieut. 10 Aug. 1781 ; in 5th reg. in 1783. 

His descent from Thomas^ Turner of Hingham, 1639, who m. 
6 Jan. 1652, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Hyland, and d. Nov. 1688, 
was through Thomas,"^ oi 'S>c\Xx\dXe, 1680; Cakb^ b. 1691 ; Capt. 
Marlboro^ (his father). 

Marlbry m. 7 Jan. i 790, Deborah Stockbridge. 

i^Elcfl JTurncr. 

He was of Scituate ; was lieut. and quartermaster in Mar- 
shall's (lOth) reg., served four years, and d. before 1812. 

JTljomas SJTurncr. 

He was com. capt. in Col. G. Bradford's (14th) reg. 8 May, 
1776; capt. in H. Jackson's (i6th) reg. 24 April, 1779; sub- 
sequently transferred to Brooks's (7th) reg. and served to the 
end of the war. He became a member of the N. Y. Society 
in 1787, but subsequently removed to Charleston, S. C, and 
joined the S. C. Society. 

His descent from ^/(';;^//;/rr* of Scituate was through Thomas'' 
and Sarah Hyland ; Thomas ° and Hannah, dau. of Edward Jack- 
son ; Ephraun* (his father), b. 1693, and Dorothy Fay. 

lEItjaf) Vom. 

He was the son of Elijah and Sarah (Bent) Vose ; was b. 
Milton, Mass., 24 Feb. 1744; d. there 19 March, 1S22. Cap- 
tain in Heath's, afterward Greaton's (24th) reg. early in 1775 ; 
present at the siege of Boston, and promoted to major; com. 
lieut. -col. of the reg. of his brother Joseph (ist), 2r Feb. 
1777, and served with credit through the war, in which four 
of the brothers were engaged. Moses and Bill, j'ounger 
brothers, both held responsible stations, the latter being a 
paymaster. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 493 

His descent from Rol'ert^ Vose of Dorchester, who d. 16 Oct. 
1683, ■£.. 84, was through Edwani^^ who d. 29 Jan. 1716, k. 80, and 
wife Abigail ; Nathaniel^ b. 17 Nov. 1672, d. Oct. 1753, who m. 
1696, Mary Belcher; Elijah* (his father), b. 1707. 

He had two children, Elijah and Rui h ; the latter m. Eben Breed 
of Charlestown. 

ELIJAH VOSE. 

Eldest son of Elijah, whom he succ. in 1822; b. Milton, 
Mass., I Jan. 1790; d. Boston, Mass., 12 Aug. 1856. He was 
a successful merchant in Boston for many years ; President 
and active member of the Mass. Horticultural Society. 

HENRY VOSE. 

Eldest son of Elijah and Rebecca (Bartlett) Vose, whom he 
succ. in i860; b. 21 May, 1817; d. 17 Jan. 1869; H. U. 1837. 
Lawyer in Springfield, Mass.; member of Mass. Legis- 
lature, 1857, 1858; Justice of Superior Court, 1859-69. 
Mr. Vose left no sons. One of his daughters, Mary, m. 
C. P. Greenough of Boston, and has two sons, Henry Vose 
and Alfred. There are no other grandsons. 

FRANCIS VOSE. 

Brother of Hon. Henry Vose, whom he succ. in 1870; b. 
1821; d. 29 Sept. 1880. He was a merchant in New York, 
and also held large interests in Florida. 

JJoscpi) IJosr. 

He was b. Milton, 7 Dec. 1739; d. there 22 May, 1816, on 
the estate which had been in possession of the family since 
1654. He was chosen col. of the district militia in Nov. 
1774, and was also major of Heath's Suffolk reg. On the 
night of 20 July, 1775, Major Vose, with a company of sixty 
men, " set fire to the light-house in Boston harbor, bringing 
off a field-piece, a swivel, and the lamps. The boats of a 



494 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

British man-of-war, which lay within a mile, pursued the ad- 
venturous party ; but they were in whaleboats and escaped 
by rowing." Carpenters were sent down under a guard of 
thirty marines to repair the light-house ; but on the evening 
of 30 July Major Tupper attacked them with a party from 
Squantum and Dorchester, killed the lieutenant of the ma- 
rines and one man, and captured all the others, fifty-three in 
number. Major Vose was com. lieut.-col. of Greaton's (24th) 
reg. 4 Nov. 1775, and accompanied it after the evacuation of 
Boston to Canada; com. col. 1st Mass. reg. 21 Feb. 1777, 
and joined the main army under Washington in New Jersey 
a few weeks later; was present at Monmouth, and in Sulli- 
van's campaign in Rhode Island in 1778; appointed col. (17 
Feb. 178 1) of a regiment of light infantry, with which he 
took part in the siege of Yorktown. At the close of the 
war he was made brig.-gen. by brevet. He passed the rest 
of his days upon his farm in Milton. 

He m. 5 Nov. 1761, Sarah, dau. of Josiah Howe. Children — 
S.4RAH, b. 29 July, 1762, m. Dr. George Osgood of Andover. 
Margaret, b. 4 Nov. 1763, m. Ezekiel Savage. 
Dolly, b. 20 Nov. 1765, m. Davis Sumner. 

Nancy (twin with Dolly), m. Elisha Sumner, and had Gen. Ed- 
win Vose. 
Solomon, b. 22 Feb. 1768, d. Augusta, 11 Aug. 1S09. 
Naomi, b. 31 Oct. 1769, m. Joseph Heath. 
Joseph, b. 19 Oct. 1771, d. unm. Aug. 1825. 
Isaac D., b. 22 Oct. 1773. 
Elijah, b. 28 July, 1775. 
Elizabeth Eliot, b. 2 Oct. 1782. 
Josiah Howe, b. 8 Aug. 1784, d. New Orleans, 15 July, 1845. 

ISAAC D. VOSE. 

Third son of Joseph, whom he succ. in 1816; b. Milton, 
22 Oct. 1773; d. a widower without issue at Norfolk, Va., 
2 Oct. 1835. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 495 

RUFUS CHANDLER VOSE. , 

Son of Solomon and Eliza P. (Chandler) Vose, and grand- 
son of Col. Joseph; succ. Isaac D. Vose in 1837; t). 29 June, 
1798; merchant at Augusta, Me.; adj.-gen. of the State in 
1838, and d. about 1842. He m. Mary, dau. of Judge Bridge 
of Augusta, by whom he had six children. 

JAMES GARDINER VO.SE, D.D. 

Son of Col. Josiah H. and grandson of Col. Joseph, succ. 
R. C. Vose in 1865. He was b. Boston, Mass., 3 March, 1830 ; 
educated Yale College, Andover Theological Seminary, and 
University of Berlin, Germany: ordained a Congregational 
minister, 20 Oct. 1857; Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst 
College, 1856-65 ; Acting Pastor in Dorchester, Mass., 1865 ; 
since then pastor of the Beneficent Congregational Church, 
Providence, R. I. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown 
University, 1874; is Trustee of Wheaton Seminary, Norton, 
Mass. ; also of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 

His descent horn Rodcrf^ Vose oi Lancaster Co. Eng., b. 1599, 
who settled in Milton, Mass., July, 1654, and d. 16 Oct. 1683, was 
through Edtvard,^ b. 1636, d. 1716; Nathaniel^ b. Milton, 17 
Nov. 1672, (1. 9 Oct. 1753, who m. Mary Belcher; Elijah,* b. 
Milton, I Jan. 1708, d. 5 April, 1802, who m. Sarah Bent in 1729 ; 
G&n. Joseph,^ b. 26 Nov. 1738, d. 22 May, 1816, who m. Sarah, 
dau. of Josiah Howe of Dorchester, 27 Dec. 1761; Co\. Josiah 
Howe^ U. S. A. youngest, son of Gen. Joseph, b. Milton, 8 Aug. 
1784, d. New Orleans, 15 July, 1845, who m. Charlotte, dau. of 
Hawkes Gushing of Scituate, 3 May, 1808. Gol. Josiah H. was a 
merchant in .-Vugusta, Me.; entered the army in the war of 181 2, 
with the rank of capt., and at his death was col. of the 4th U. S. 
infantry. 

James G. m. 19 Aug. at Greenfield, Mass., Charlotte Elizabeth, 
dau. of Hon. Franklin Ripley. Children — 

Charlotte Ripley, b. 25 Aug. 1857. 



496 l!lli(,'.KA!'IIlCAL iNOTICES OF THE 

Sar.\h Fr.\-\klin, b. 8 Dec. 1S59. 
JosuH Howe, b. 9 April, 1862. 
Eliz.\beth Euot, b. 3 May, 1868. 
Robert Heixry, b. 27 June, 1870. 

Cljomas Tost. 

He was the son of Jonathan am,! Man' Vose, of Milton; 
was b. 8 May, 1753; and d. Thoniaston, Me., :!8 Dec. iSiO. 
He was com. 2d lieut. in Thomas Pcirce's company of Grid- 
ley's artillery reg. 8 May, 1775; transferred, i Jan. 1776, 
to Knox's artillery reg.; com. 1st lieut. Crane's artillery reg. 
I Jan. 1777; capt. (same reg.) 2 Dec. 1778; was one of the 
officers who guarded Major Andre prior to that officer's exe- 
cution, and was in many of the prominent battles of the war, 
continuing in the service six months after the disbanding of 
the army. He then entered into mercantile business in 
W'atcrtown, Mass., with his companions-in-arms. Major Daniel 
Jackson and Capt. John George, but removed in 1787, at the 
solicitation of his friend Gen. Knox, to Thomaston, Me., 
where he was associated in business with the General until 
1804. He superintended the building of the Knox Mansion, 
attended at the bedside of his dying friend, and was one of the 
appraisers of his estate. Capt. Vose was three years sur\c\or 
of the port of Thomaston, and superintended in 1809 the 
erection of the fort on George's River, Me. He was a man 
of fine physical development and remarkable strength ; and 
possessed good business ability and judgment. 

His descent from Robert'^ I'osc, who came from England and 
settled in Milton in 1654, was through Thomas,- who came from Eng- 
land with his father and who m. in 1641, Waitstill Wyatt ; TJionuis,^ 
b. 22 Feb. 1667, m. 28 May, 1695, Hannah Babcock ; /('//(///w/; * 
(his father), b. .Aug. 1704, d. 15 Sept. 1775, who m. Mary Field. 

He m. 1 784 Sarah, dau. of John, and sister of Capt. John 
George of Quincy, who d. Thomaston, Me., 20 Feb. 1835, ^- 79- 
Children — 



CINCINNATI UF MAS.SACllUSKTTS. 497 

]\Iary, b. 26 Sept. 1785, d. 2 Jan. 1S54, m. 16 May, 18 ii, Capt. 

Archibald Robinson. 
Sarah, d. 1793. 
Margaret, d. 1793. 
Lucy, b. 23 April, 1791, m. 30 Jan. 1815, Capt. Wm. Henderson, 

of Gushing, Me., d. 19 July, 1825. 
Thomas, d. 1793. 
Sarah George, b. 4 Oct. 1794, m. Dea. James Partridge, d. 17 

Dec. 1875. 
Thomas P., b. 13 Sept. 1796, d. unm. 10 May, 1832. 
Wii.UAM, b. 24 Dec. 1798, d. Dec. 1875, unm. 
James F., b. 23 March, 1800, d. 15 May, 1878, m. 10 Jan. 1833, 

Sophia Andrews of Warren, Me. Children : Lucy H., b. 6 

June, 1833, m. John VV. Mathews, 25 Nov. 185 1, d. 10 Oct. 

1884; Thomas S. ; Oliver A., b. 25 Sept. 1837, m. Cordelia 

M. Watts, 12 Jan. 1861 ; Maria A.,h. 25 March, 1842, m. 

Albert P. Piper, 26 Dec. 1873 ; Benjamin F., b. 22 Aug. 1S46, 

d. 27 April, 1 84 7. 

THOMAS S. VOSE. 

Eldest son of James F. and grandson of Capt. Thomas, 
whom he succ. in 1876; was b. Thomaston, Me., 12 March, 
1836. He is a blacksmith, and resides in Thomaston. Unm. 

Sosrpl) aJDIalcs. 

He was of Lancaster, and was living on a government 
pension in 1 820; ensign in Marshall's (loth) reg. ; com. licut. 
4 Oct. 1780, and was in the 6th reg. in 1783. 

IStrtoartr amalfecr. 

He was com. a licut. and paymaster in Shcpard's (4th) 
reg. in 1777; was retired i Jan. 1783, after serving through 
the entire period of the war; and d. in 1802. He m. Abigail, 
sister of James Lovell, who survived him. 
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498 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He enlisted as sergt. in N. Watkins's Co. of E. Phinney's 
rag. in 1775; was com. ensign, 15 April, 1776; lieut. in 12th 
reg. 1777; capt. 15 July, 1779; in 2d reg. (Sprout's) in 1783, 
and served to the end of the war. He d. Windsor, Mass., in 
Jan. 1834. 

Jlojsrplj SSaai'tiiucU. 

He was b. Salem, Mass., 29 Jan. 1760; d. Rumford Point, 
Me., 5 March, 1849. After some years' service in the army, 
during which he took part in several battles, he was com. 
ensign in (Vose's ist) reg. 18 Jan. 1782. He was attached 
to the corps of La Fayette, and was presented with a sword 
by the Marquis at the close of the war. He always referred 
with pride to the fact that he welcomed Washington at the 
Theological Seminary in behalf of the people of Andover, 
when the President visited that town. 

He m. Sarah, dau. of Moses Harrington, D.D. They had — 
Joseph H., b. New Salem, N. H., 3 Oct. 1795, d. Hanover, Me., 
2 March, 1849, m. Lydia Howard, dau. of Asa Howard of 
Temple, N. H. He was in the war of 181 2. 
MosES, b. ab. 1798, m. Mrs. . Brown, Warren, R. I. He en- 
listed as a private in the war of 1812, but on his arrival al Platts- 
burg the general commanding took him as a private waiter. 
He was afterward a sea-captain, and was supposed to have 
been murdered in New Orleans, i March, 1832. 

WILLIAM H. WARDWELL. 

Son of Joseph H. and grandson of Lieut. Joseph, whom 
he succ. in 1857, was b. Rumford Corner, Me., 7 March, 1820. 
He was educated at Rumford and at the Bethel Hill Academy, 
Me. He is a portrait-painter and a photographer, and resides 
in Boston. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 499 



He enlisted as a corporal in Fernald's Co. of E. Phinney's 
reg in 1775; was promoted to sergeant 17 April, 1776; was 
com. ensign in S. Brewer's (i2th) reg. in March, 1777; lieut. 
in Sprout's (12th) reg. 7 April, 1779, and served through the 
war, at the close of which he was in Vose's (ist) reg. 

JJamcs azuarrcit, Jr. 

He was the son of James and Mercy (Otis) Warren, of 
Plymouth; b. 18 Oct. 1757; d. unm. in Plymouth, Mass., 

6 Aug. 1821 ; H. U. 1776. 

His mother was a sister of the celebrated orator James 
Otis, and was a talented and versatile writer ; his father was 
President of the Third Mass. Provincial Congress, 1775, suc- 
ceeding Gen. Joseph Warren, and was a member of the Navy 
Board; maj.-gen. of the Mass. militia; paymaster-general of 
the forces at Cambridge, Mass. ; Speaker of the Mass. House 
of Representatives ; and Presidential Elector, 1803. 

James, Jr., was a lieut. in the Revolutionary navy, 1776- 
80; served on the frigate "Alliance;" lost a leg at the 
time of the engagement between the " Bon Homme Richard " 
and the " Serapis," in which the "Alliance" took part. After 
the war he was for some years postmaster at Plymouth. He 
was adm. to the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati in 1796. 

His descent from Richard'^ U'arnii of Greenwich, Eng., b. 15S0, 
d. 1628, who came to Plymouth in the " Mayflower," 1620, m. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Marsh, ne'e Juatt, was through Nathaniel ^ b. Plymouth, 
d. there 1667, m. Sarah Walker, Nov. 1645 ; James, ^ b. Plymouth, 

7 Nov. 1665, d. there 30 May, i 715, m. Sarah, dau. of Edward Doty, 
June, 1687 ; James* b. Plymouth, 14 April, 1700, d. there 2 July, 
1757, m. Penelope, dau. of Hon. Isaac Winslow, 30 Jan. 1724; 

James!' (his father), b. Plymouth, 28 Sept. (9 Oct. N. S.) 1726, d. 



500 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

there 28 Nov. 1808, H. U. 1745, m. 14 Nov. 1754, Mercy Otis, 
dau. of Hon. James Otis of Barnstable. 

HENRY WARREN. 

Third brother of Lieut. James, whom he succ. in 1825, 
his two older brothers, Winslow and Charles, having died 
previously without issue; b. Plymouth, 21 March, 1764; d. 
there 6 July, 1828. He was for many years Collector for the 
District of Plymouth, and was eminent for his social qualities 
and his hospitality. 

He m. 8 Nov. 1791, Mary, dau. of Pelham ^\'inslow of Marshfield, 
and granddaughter of Gen. John Winslow, a direct descendant of 
Gov. Edward Winslow; she d. March, 1S58. They had seven sons 
and two daughters. 

WINSLOW WARREN, M D. 

Eldest son of Henry, whom he succ. in 1829; b. in Ply- 
mouth, 14 Jan. 1795; H. U. 1813; M.D. (University of 
Pennsylvania) 1817; practised medicine in Plymouth; d. 
there 10 June, 1870. Vice-Pres. of the Mass. Society of 
the Cincinnati, 1866-70. He was a fine classical scholar, a 
thorough student, distinguished in his profession, and warmly 
interested in educational and social reforms. 

He m. Margaret, dau. of Dr. Zaccheus Bartlett of Plymouth, 6 Jan. 
1835. They had — - 

Mary Ann, b. 24 Nov. 1S36. 
Winslow, b. 20 March, 1838. 
Caroline Bartlett, b. 18 Dec. 1841. 

WINSLOW WARREN. 

Only son of Dr. Winslow and Margaret (Bartlett) Warren ; 
succ. his father in 1870; b. Plymouth, 20 March, 1838 ; H. U. 
1858; LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1861; is a counsellor-at- 
law in Boston, and resides in Dedham, Mass. ; U. S. Commis- 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 5OI 

sioner; member of the Mass. Historical Society; ASSIST. 
Secretary of the Mass. Society of the Cincinnati, 1877- 
78, and its Treasurer from 1878 to 1887, when he was 
chosen Vice-President. He took a prominent part in the 
independent political movement of 1884, and has since been 
identified with the efforts for a reform of the tariff, the civil 
service, and the ballot. 

He m. 3 Jan. 1S67, Mary L., dau. of Spencer Tinkham of Boston. 
Children — 

Charles, b. 9 March, 1868. 
Margaret, b. 16 Dec. 1869. 
Mary Lincoln, b. 14 Jan. 1873. 
WiNSLOW, b. 1 June, 187S. 

Jioljn 2Marrcn. 

He was an ensign in Bigelow's (15th) reg. ; was com. 
lieut. in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. I9 May, 1782; and was 
living on a government pension in New York in 1820. 

JOHN COLLINS WARREN, M.D. 

Eldest son of Dr. John and Abigail (Collins) Warren, and 
nephew of Gen. Joseph Warren; was admitted in 1854, under 
the rule adopted in May of that year, having been elected 
an honorary member in 1847.* He was b. Boston, I Aug. 
1778; d. there 4 May, 1856; H. U. 1797. He studied med- 
icine with his father, a distinguished practitioner, and in the 
hospitals of London and Paris; began practice in Boston 
in 1802, and became especially eminent as a surgeon. He 
was the first to use (in 1846) ether in surgical operations. 
He was assistant professor of anatomy and surgery in Harvard 
University in 1806-15; full professor in 1815-47, and after- 
ward emeritus professor; was one of the founders of the 

* See AliiLils of the Society, ante, p. 6t. 



502 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Mass. General Hospital in 1820, and principal surgeon in 
daily attendance until his death ; was also a founder of the 
McLean Asylum for the Insane; was President of the Mass. 
Medical Society in 1832-36, and later of the Boston Society 
of Natural History, and was a member of the principal 
scientific bodies in America and Europe. He devoted much 
of his later life to the natural sciences ; and his collection 
of specimens in comparative anatomy, osteology, and pale- 
ontology, one of the largest and most valuable private col- 
lections in the world, included the most perfect skeleton of 
a mastodon which has been discovered. He was an ardent 
friend of temperance, and was for many years President of 
the Mass. Temperance Society. He was chiefly instru- 
mental in founding, and was from 1828 associate editor of, 
the " Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," and wrote and 
published many treatises upon medical and other subjects. 
His " Life, with Autobiography and Journals," by Edward 
Warren, was published in two vols, in i860. 

His descent from John ^ Warren, who came to Charlestown in 
1630, and who was probably the father of Pcier^ b. 1628, d. Bos- 
ton, 15 Nov. 1704, who m. I Aug. 1660, Sarah, dau. of Robert 
Tucker of Dorchester, was through Joseph^ b. 19 Feb. 1663, d. 
Roxbury, 13 July, 1729, who m. Deborah, dau. of Samuel Williams ; 
Joseph,^ b. 2 Feb. 1696, d. 25 Oct. 1755, who m. 29 May, 1740, 
Mary, dau. of Dr. Samuel Stevens, and who was the father of Gen. 
Joseph and Dr. John Warren. 

Dr. John C. m. 17 Nov. 1803, Susan Powell, dau. of Hon. 
Jonathan Mason, who d. 3 June, 1841. Children — 

John, b. 16 Sept. 1804, d. young. 

Susan Powell, b. 23 July, 1806, m. Charles Lyman, 4 April, 1827. 

Jonathan Mason. 

James Sullivan, b. 21 Nov. 1S12, m. 27 Aug. 1846, Elizabeth 
Linzee Greene. 

Mary Collins, b. 19 Jan. 1816, m. 26 Oct. 1842, Thomas Dwight. 

Emily, b. 10 May, 181S, m. 9 Oct. 1S45, William Appleton. 




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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 503 

JONATHAN MASON WARREN, M.D. 

Son of Dr. John C, whom he succ. in 1863; b. Boston, 
5 Feb. 1811 ; d. there 19 Aug. 1867. He received his med- 
ical degree from Harvard University in 1832; practised 
medicine in his native city ; was visiting surgeon of the 
Mass. General Hospital from 1846 until his death; and was 
the author of numerous monographs on special subjects, the 
latest of which, " Surgical Observations,, with Cases and 
Operations," was finely illustrated. He m. 30 April, 1839, 
Anna, dau. of Hon. B. VV. Crowninshield. 

JOHN COLLINS WARREN, M.D. 

Only son of Dr. J M. Warren, whom he succ. in 1871; 
was b. Boston, 4 May, 1842; H. U. 1863; received his 
medical degree from the University in 1866; appointed 
Instructor of Surgery, H. U. 1871 ; and is now Associate 
Professor of Surgery; President of the Mass. Charitable Eye 
and Ear Infirmary; visiting surgeon to the Mass. General 
Hospital since 1876; and is also a practising physician 
in Boston. 

He m. 2 7 May, 1873, Amy, dau. of G. Howland Shaw. Children — 
John, b. 6 Sept. 1874. 
Joseph, b. 16 March, 1876. 

WLiUism Wiatson. 

He was an ensign in Fellows's reg. in May-Dec. 1775; 
lieut. in Ward's (21st) reg., and present at the siege of 
Boston; afterward in Wesson's (9th) reg., of which he 
was com. capt. 26 July, 1779; in Greaton's (3d) reg., and 
captured near White Plains, N. Y., 3 Feb. 1780, by Col. 
Norton; in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783. He d. in Lincoln, 
Mass., in March, 18-28, x. 8^ 



504 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

i[Wasou Wlattltu, 

He was an ensign in John Nixon's reg. in 1776; licut. in 
T.Nixon's (6th) reg. in 1777; com. capt. 13 April, 1780; 
left the army in 1783; and d. a government pensioner, 21 
July, 1819. 

He was of Holden, Mass., and was living on a government 
pension in 1823, at the age of eighty; was a lieut. in Ebenezer 
Francis's reg. in 1776; com. capt. in Shepard's (4th) reg. i 
Jan. 1777; retired, i Jan. 1783. 

ISantrl WLtblitv, 

He was an ensign and afterward 2d licut. in Bailey's (2d) 
reg.; com. ist lieut. 30 April, 1782; in Sprout's (2dJ reg. 
1783; d. Sanford, Me., I Feb. 1827. 

DANIEL WEBSTER, LL.D. 

He was admitted as an Honorary Member on 4 July, 185 i.* 
His father, Ebenezer (b. 1739, d. 1806), served in the old 
French war, under Sir Jeffrey Amherst, and in the war of 
the Revolution, attaining the rank of Colonel of Militia. 
Daniel was b. Salisbury (now Franklin), N. H., 18 Jan. 
1782; d. Marshfield, Mass., 24 Oct. 1852. Lawyer, orator, 
statesman. 

IBUuiia MlsUinQton. 

He was an ensign, and 26 July, 1782, was com. Iicut. in 
Greaton's (3d) reg.; and d. ab. iSoi in Concord, Mass., 
leaving a widow Lucy. 

ELTSHA WELLINGTON. 

Eldest son of Lieut. Elisha, whom he succ. in 1804; b. 
Concord, Mass., 11 Feb. 1781 ; deceased. 

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CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 505 

iSrnjatnin JSMtUs. 

He was an ensign in Vose's (ist) rcg. in 1777; was com. 
lieut. 4 May, 1780, served till 1783, and d. 3 June, 1828, 
leaving a widow Lucy, who d. Boston, 5 Feb. 1865, ae. 84. 

JJamcs 2MfUB. 

James. (afterward named James A.) Wells, son of Ashbel 
and Abigail (Kellog) Wells, was b. Hartford, Ct., in 1760; d. 
there 23 Feb. 1806. He pleaded so earnestly to join the 
army on the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, that although 
only sixteen years of age, and of a delicate constitution, his 
parents reluctantly consented, and he enlisted in the Mass. 
4th (Shepard's) reg. at Boston in 1776. He was com. lieut. 
in Tupper's (nth) reg. 16 Oct. 1780; and was in H. Jack- 
son's (4th) reg. in 1783. Returning to Hartford, he entered 
into mercantile pursuits; but became embarrassed, and 
finally lost his capital. This family has been represented in 
the four general wars of our country, — the Revolution, the 
war of 1 81 2, the Mexican war, and the war of the Rebellion. 

He m. Lucy, dau. of David Bull, and had — 

Elizabeth, m. Rev. Christopher J. Lawton of Marion, and had 
five children, one of whom, Thomas Scott, served in the Mexi- 
can war. 

Charlotte, d. ab. 1870. 

Eleazer M. p. 

Mary (d. 1871), m. Henry W. Nelson of Castine, Me., and had 
three sons, — namely, Henry Wells, Frank Howard, who was 
a lieut. in the war of the Rebellion, killed at Williamsburg, Va., 
6 May, 1862, and Thomas, who resides in Boston. 

ELEAZER MATHER PORTER WELLS, D.D. 

Eldest son of James, whom he succ. in 1829; b. Hartford, 
Ct , 4 .^ug 1793 ; d. Boston, i Dec. 1878. He served in the 



506 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

Connecticut militia in the war of 1812, and was educated at 
Brown University, from which he was expelled in 1S19 for 
refusing to give information against a classmate, but after- 
ward received his degree. He was licensed as a Congrega- 
tional minister, 18 March, 1823, after studying theology at 
the Bangor Theological Institute ; officiated some time at 
Plymouth, and in 1824-26 at Calais, Me.; ordained deacon 
in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 7 June, 1826; priest, 
21 June, 1827; officiated some months at Christ Church, 
Gardiner, Me. ; then took charge of the House of Reforma- 
tion for Juvenile Offenders at Boston, where he labored six 
years (27 Dec. 1827-34); founded what is now known as the 
Farm School on Thompson's Island in 1834, and in 1835 
established a school of his own, called the School of Moral 
Discipline, at City Point, South Boston. Here he worked 
hard for some years, until his health and strength com- 
pletely failed him. After a year's rest his health was re- 
stored ; and in Dec. 1844, he took charge of the City 
Mission in Boston, where he continued his labors until his 
death. Having purchased the St. Stephen's House, adjoin- 
ing the St. Stephen's Church property, he added it to the 
Mission, 20 Jan. 1847, and gave a deed of the house and 
land to the Corporation. After his death the mission-house 
was re-named St. Stephen's House, and inscribed as a per- 
manent memorial of Dr. Wells ; and as a further mark of 
respect to his memory, the " Wells Memorial Workingmen's 
Club and Institute " was established, " to promote the wel- 
fare of working-men by furnishing reading-rooms, libra- 
ries, instruction, and whatever else may contribute to their 
physical and moral well-being." An association was in- 
corporated for the management of the institution, and, the 
necessary funds having been obtained, a suitable building 
was erected on Washington Street, and dedicated 22 Feb. 
1883. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 507 

At the annual meeting of the Cincinnati Society in 1S79, 
Rev. Dr. Lothrop submitted the following declaration, which 
was unanimously adopted : — 

" That in the character and career of Rev. E. M. P. Wells, D.D., 
we have an example of the pure in motive, lofty in purpose, noble 
in action ; a man who seemed to know no law but duty, no master 
but conscience, no object but usefulness ; who battled with poverty 
in his boyhood, resisted the temptations to wealth and worldliness 
in his early manhood, and obeying the Divine voice within him, con- 
secrated himself to God and Christian humanity as a minister of the 
Gospel, and for long years through various fortunes and in the con- 
stant exercise of a self-denying love and zeal, was true to that con- 
secration and eminently useful in it. Manifesting ever the spirit of 
the patriot, the martyr, and the saint, without tinge of self-seeking, 
spiritual pride, or sanctimonious ostentation, he leaves a name and 
memory that shall live to be honored and cherished, not only by us, 
but by others who will be here long after we are gone." 



HENRY WELLS NELSON, D.D. 

Son of Henry W. and Mary (Wells) Nelson, and nephew 
of Dr. Wells, whom he succ. in 1890; was b. Boston, 17 Aug. 
1839. He received his general education at Burlington Col- 
lege, N. J., and his theological education at the Berkeley 
Divinity School, Middletown, Ct ; was ordained deacon in 
1862; received priest's orders in 1864; assistant at St. James 
Church, New London, Ct., for two years ; afterward rector of 
the Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford, Ct., till 1876; 
since then rector of Trinity Church, Geneva, N. Y. He was 
a delegate to the General Conventions of 1886 and 1889; 
and a member of the Committee on the Hymnal. He is a 
member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of west- 
ern New York, and Trustee of Hobart College. He received 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1889. 



50S BIOGRArmCAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. 14 June, 1865, Hortense C, dau. of George Richards Lewis 

of New London, Ct. Children — 
Margaret Howard, b. 11 July, 1866. 
George Lewis, b. 7 Oct. 1867. 
pR-iNK Howard, b. 6 Sept. 1869. 
Mary Hortense, b. 7 Feb. 1873. 
Katherke Dorothe.\, b. 8 Dec. 1880. 

JTljomas HMcUs. 

He was the son of Francis Wells and Susannah Welsh 
(widow of Ebenezer) ; was b. Cambridge Farms, 23 May, 
1754; and d. Boston, 30 Oct. 1799. He was com. 2d lieut. 
in Knox's artillery reg. i Jan. 1776; capt. in Crane's artillery 
reg. in 1778 ; and left the army in 1780, after a service of five 
years and three months. Became a member of the Society 
in 17S8. 

He ra. I 780, Hannah, dau. of Gov. Samuel .\dams. They had — 

Samuel Adajis. 

Elizabeth, who m. Dr. John Randall of Stowe, Mass., and had 

Elizabeth, Joh?i, Belinda, Maria, and Antia. 
Thomas, who m. (ist) Belinda, dau. of Col. Lull of Windsor, Vt. ; 

and (2d) 5 Aug. 1821, Anna Maria Foster of Gloucester, Mass. 

They had Belinda ; Thomas Foster, who m. Sarah, dau. of 

Joseph Morrill of Roxbury ; Samuel Adams, m. Angeline P. 

Bates of Springfield, Mass.; William Vincent, b. 2 Jan. 1826; 

Anna Maria. 

SAMUEL ADAMS WELLS. 

Eldest son of Capt. Thomas, whom he succ. in 180S; b. 
Boston, 1787; d. Dorchester, Mass., 12 Aug. 1840. He was 
a tenacious advocate of the Democratic party; was Corre- 
sponding Secretary of the " Republican Institution ; " delegate 
to the State Constitutional Convention of 1820; President of 
the Atlas Insurance Company, Boston. He delivered the ora- 
tion before the Washington Society on 4 July, 1819. He 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 5O9 

collected materials for the life and works of Samuel Adams, 
his grandfather, and a few chapters had been printed when 
his death put an end to the work. The collection then passed 
into the hands of George Bancroft, who made use of it in his 
history. William V. Wells, grandson of Capt. Thomas, and 
great-grandson of Gov. Samuel Adams, made further use of 
the collection in " The Life and Public Services of Samuel 
Adams," published in three volumes in 1866. 

He m. Margaret Gale. They had — 

Samuel Adams. 

Elizabeth. 

Hannah. 

Ja^ies, a merchant in New York City. 

C.\tharine, who m. O'Reilly. 

George. 

James WituBon. 

He was from Brookline, and after the war settled in Marl- 
borough, Mass., where he d. 15 Oct. 1809, ae. 72. He was 
major and afterward lieut.-col. of Loammi Baldwin's reg. ; 
raised and commanded the 9th reg., of which he was com. 
col. I Jan. 1777; served at the siege of Boston, in the opera- 
tions near New York (1776), the relief of Fort Schuyler in 
Aug. 1777, and the battles of Trenton, Saratoga, and Mon- 
mouth. At the last-named engagement he was in Wayne's 
brigade, and was severely wounded by a cannon-ball, which 
peeled the muscles from his back almost from shoulder to 
shoulder. He had — 

William, who had one daughter and three sons, the eldest of whom 
was fames ; Stephen, b. 1775, d. Marlborough, March, 1850. 

He was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Aspinwall) 
White; was b. Brookline, Mass., 27 Nov. 1758; d. Savannah, 



5IO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THK 

Ga., 9 Jan. 1812. Com. ensign in M. Jackson's (8th) reg. 
1777; lieut. 6 March, 1778, and served until 1783. Remov- 
ing to Savannah, Ga., in 1785, he became Register of Pro- 
bate, and was for some years naval officer there. 

He was b. Danvers, Mass. ; d. ab. 181 7, near Waterford, O. 
He was lieut. of a company of minute-men at the battle of 
Lexington; lieut. and adj. in Hutchinson's reg. at the siege 
of Boston and invasion of Canada; was in Francis's reg. 
at Hubbardton; com. capt. in R. Putnam's (5th) reg. i Jan. 
1777; was in the battles ending with Burgoyne's surrender, 
and subsequently in the commissary department under Col. 
Pickering; served to 20 Sept. 1783, when he returned to his 
home in Salem. On 3 Dec. 1787, he led from Salem the 
advance-guard of pioneers in the settlement of Marietta, O. ; 
afterward erected mills at Wolf Creek, and finally settled near 
Waterford. His son Pelatiah left Williaiii Hafficld and 
several daughters. 

Jol)n Sisaijitinfl. 

He was b. Lancaster, Mass., 24 Feb. 1760; d. Washington, 
D. C, 3 Sept. 1 8 10, and was interred in the Congressional 
burying-ground in that city. He belonged in 1775 to a 
minute-company in Billerica, a few miles north of Lexington ; 
and on the morning of the 19th of April marched side by 
side with his father (who had served in the French war of 
1756-63) and an elder brother Timothy (who became a 
captain in the Revolutionary army) to the latter place, 
and shared in the running fight with the British in their re- 
treat from Concord. He immediately joined the army at 
Cambridge, was under Arnold at Lake Champlain in 1776, 
and with Gates's army in the campaign of 1777 against Bur- 
goyne, during which he was com. ensign; com. lieut in 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 5 I I 

Sprout's (i2th) reg. 5 July, 1779; adjutant, 17S0; and took 
part in the siege of Yorktown. He retired to private life 
at the end of the war, but re-entered the service on the in- 
crease of the army in 1808 as lieut.-col. 4th inf ; was com. 
adj. and inspector of the army, 17 July, 1809; and 31 Dec. 
1809, col. of the 5th inf. He had, while adjutant, preserved 
the orders issued to the army; and a portion of these, en- 
titled " Revolutionary Orders of Gen. Washington," was pub- 
lished in 1844 by his son Gen. Henry Whiting. 

His descent from Rev. Samuel Whiting, b. Boston, Eng., 20 
Nov. 1597, who came to New England, 26 May, and was pastor of 
the first church at Lynn, Mass., from 8 Nov. 1636, to his death 11 
Dec. 1679, and his wife Elizabeth, only dau. of the Rt. Hon. Oliver St. 
John, was through Rev. Samuel j- b. Skirbeck, Eng., 25 March, 1633, 
H. U. 1653, minister of Billerica, Mass., from 11 Nov. 1663, to his 
death, 28 Feb. 1713, who m. 12 Nov. 1656, Dorcas, dau. of Leonard 
Chester; Oliver? h. 8 Nov. 1665, a magistrate and representative 
of Billerica, d. 22 Dec. 1736, who m. 22 Jan. i6go, Anna, dau. of 
Capt. Jonathan Danforth ; Samuel* b. 6 Sept. 1702, d. 4 Nov. 1772 ; 
Timothy^ (his father), of Lancaster, b. 24 Feb. 1732, d. 12 July, 
1 799, who served in the French war, and who with his sons Timothy 
and John was present at the battle of Lexington. 

He m. I 784, Orpah Danforth of Connecticut. They had — 

Timothy D., b. 1785, d. 1851, s. p. (captam). 

Julia, b. 1787, d. 181 7, s. p. 

Henry, gen. U. S. A., a brave officer and an accomplished man, 
b. 1788, d. 16 Sept. 1851. He m. Elizabeth Macomb, and had 
Henry Alacomb, who ser\-ed as lieut. in the Mexican war, d. 
1852 ; and William Danforth. 

SoPHU, d. 1853, s. p. 

Fabius (major U. S. .A.), d. 1842. s. p. 

Mama, b. 1794. 

Solon, b. 1797. 

Carolixe Lee, b. 1800, authoress, m. 1825, Prof. N. M. Hentz, 
d. 1856. 



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512 ISIUGRAI'HICAL NOTICES UF THE 



WILLIAM DANFORTH WHITING. 

Son of Gen. Henry and grandson of Col. John, whom he 
succ. in 1877; was b. Boston, 27 May, 1823. He entered the 
U. S. navy as midshipman, i March, 1841 ; was "passed 
midshipman" during the Mexican war; lieut. at the opening 
of the war of the Rebelhon ; executive officer of the sloop- 
of-war " Vandaha " at the attack and capture of the forts at 
Port Royal, S. C, by the fleet under command of Admiral 
Dupont ; subsequently commanded the gunboats " W}'an- 
dotte " and " Ottawa," serving throughout the war on the 
Atlantic coast, taking an active part in the blockade of the 
Atlantic ports ; participating in all the operations against 
Charleston, in the capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg, 
the reduction of Fort Sumter and Fort Pulaski. After the 
war he commanded at different times the U. S. steamships 
" Savannah," " Tioga," " Saratoga," double-turreted monitor 
" Miantanomah," and the "Worcester," — the last-named be- 
ing assigned by the Government to convey for the city of Bos- 
ton their contributions of food to the French in 1871. He was 
promoted captain August, 1872, serving as fleet-captain and 
chief of staff of the North Atlantic squadron from 1873 to 
1876; afterward as executive officer at the Naval Home, 
Philadelphia. In June, 1878, he was called to duty at the 
Navy Department, as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, 
with the relative rank of commodore. He served there until 
October, 1881, when he was retired on account of blindness 
from causes incident to the service. A bill was passed 
through Congress without opposition promoting him to the 
rank of commodore on the retired list. 

He m. 24 July, 1848, Jane, dau. of Charles H. Stewart. Children — 
Jane Stewart, b. Aug. 1849. 
Henry, b. July, 1853. 



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Eliza Macomb, b. June, 1854. 
William Macomb, b. July, 1855. 
Mary Gray, b. Sept. 1858. 
Florence, b. Aug. 1861. 

Samuel mimmn, j«.za. 

He was b. in Boston, 12 Jan. 1754, entered the Latin 
School in 1762, and in 1774 graduated from the College of 
New Jersey (Princeton). He studied medicine under Dr. 
James Lloyd, and on i Jan. 1777 was com. surgeon of Col. 
John Greaton's reg. (3d Continental), and served through 
the war. He was one of the thirty-six officers, with Wash- 
ington at the head, who signed the original " Institution " of 
the Cincinnati Society (now in the possession of Hon. Hamil- 
ton Fish) reported by the committee of officers and adopted 
by the representatives of the American army at the canton- 
ment on Hudson River, 13 May, 1783. On 4 July, 1789, he 
delivered one of the six orations which have been given be- 
fore the Society. This oration was printed, at the request 
of the Society, and a copy is now among its papers. On 
14 Jan. 1784, he m. Lucy Tyler, dau. of Joseph and Frances 
Tyler, and a granddaughter of the eccentric Judge John Tyng 
of Tyngsborough. Dr. Whitwell d. at Newton on 21 Nov. 
1 79 1, and is buried there. 

His children were — 

John Tyng, b. 22 Nov. 1784, d. 29 March, 1837. 
Samuel, b. 28 July, 1786, d. 11 March, 1871. 
Elizabeth, b. 27 Nov. 1788, d. 6 April, 1827. 

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WHITWELL. 

Grandson of Dr. Samuel, whom he succ. in 1889; was b. 
Boston, 10 March, 1820. He received his education at 
Charles W. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, and at D G. Ingra- 
35 



514 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

ham's school in Boston. He is a merchant, and resides in 
Boston. 

His descent is from Samuel^ U'hitweil, b. at Colnbrook, Eng., 
in 1687, d. 3 Oct. 1722, who m. Elizabeth Archer of London, 
b. 1687, d. 17 Feb. 1784. They both came to America. Their 
son, Samuel,^ b. in England, 17 Dec. (O. S.) 1717, d. Boston, 8 June, 
1801, m. 13 June, 1749, Elizabeth Kelsey, b. 5 May, 1722, d. 6 
April, 1 768. Their son. Dr. Samuel^ is noticed above. His son, 
Samuel,^ b. at Newton, 28 July, 1786, d. at Boston, 11 March, 
1 87 1, m. 26 Nov. iSio, Sophia Story, dau. of Rev. Isaac Story of 
Marblehead, and his wife Rebecca (Bradstreet), b. 3 March, 1787, 
d. at Boston, 27 Dec. 1867. 

Frederick Augustus m. 12 June, 1861, Mary Crowninshield, dau, 
of Nathaniel Silsbee. Children — 

Frederick Silsbee, b. 12 March, 1862. 

Nat.^lie Silsbee, b. 2 July, 1863. 

i£l)rnrjrc SHilTis.* 

He was b. in 1758; d. Boston, 4 Dec. 1794. He enlisted 
as a corporal on 12 May, 1775, in Capt. Lemuel Trescott's 
Co. of Col. Jona. Brewer's reg., which was in the battle of 
Bunker Hill. He was sergt. in Capt. Hancock's Co. of Vose's 
reg. from i Jan. 1777, to 31 Dec. 1779; ensign in the same 
regiment from i Jan. 1780; com. lieut. 11 May, 17S1, and 
served until the army was disbanded. He was in the Ticon- 
deroga expedition in 1776, the campaign against Burgoyne 
in 1777, the R. I. campaign in 1778, and at the siege of 
Yorktown. He kept a journal during the period of his ser- 
vice between 7 Aug. 1776, and 8 Dec. 1781, which is now in 
the possession of his grandson, Mr. Charles T. Wild of Chel- 
sea. It contains matter of some historical value. He was 
not in the expedition to Quebec in 1775. The journal pub- 
lished under his name, in the Proceedings of the Mass. His- 

* In his journal and on the autograph list he wrote his name " Wilds." His 
descendants appear to have dropped the "s." 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 515 

torical Society for April, 1886, was copied, probably, from 
a journal kept by Ebenczer Tolmaii. 

EDENEZER WILD. 

Eldest son of Ebenezer and Abigail Wilds ; succ. his father 
in the Society in 18 14, and d. Chelsea, Mass., 10 July, 1869. 

CHARLES TIDD WILD 

Eldest son of Ebenezer, whom he succ. in 1871 ; b. Boston, 
1818. He is a printer, and resides in Chelsea, Mass. 

He m. Eliza T., dan. of Isaac Averell. Children — 
Helen, who m. Wm. M. Jewell of Concord, Mass. 
Hattie H., who m. John W. Dole of Fitchburg, Mass. 

He was b. Sandwich, Mass., 10 Feb. 1754; d. there 1795 ; 
was com. 2d lieut. in Whitcomb's reg. in 1776; lieut. 12th 
reg. 1777; capt. 29 Sept. 1778; and was brigade major in 
1783. He was an original member of the " Ohio Company." 

His descent from Abraham ^ Williams, a proprietor of Marlbor- 
ough in 1663, d. 29 Dec. 1712, who m. Joanna, dau. of William and 
Elizabeth Ward, was through lVillia?nj- d. 30 Aug. 1702, and wife 
Elizabeth; Col. Abraham,^ b. 15 April, 1695, d. 10 July, 1781, who 
m. (2d) 22 Dec. 1725, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Breck, who d. 13 
Jan. 1729; Rev. Abraham* (his father), b. 25 Feb. 1757, d. Fra- 
mingham, 8 Aug. 1784, H. U. 1744, minister of Sandwich from 
1749, who m. 1751, Anna, dau. of Col. Joseph Buckminster. 

Abraham m. 4 Jan. 1786, Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel Freeman of 
Sandwich, who d. ab. 1834. Children — 

Anna Buckminster, m. William Cottrell of Delhi, O. 

Caroline, m. Cottrell, and lived in Cincinnati, O. 

P.4TTY, b. 1789. m. Ellis Nye of Fairfield, Me. 



5l6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 



lEiJcncjec inaiillCams. 

He was b. Lebanon, Ct., 14 Oct 1749; d. Schoharie, N. Y., 
I July, 1847, 'E. 98. He entered Paterson's (afterward 
Vose's) reg. in April, 1775; was com. 2d heut. in Sept. 
1776; 1st lieut. 25 Oct. 1777; and was acting capt. of Jere 
miah Miller's Co. from June, 1779, until it was disbanded in 
1783. He was on duty in eleven of the thirteen States and 
in Canada; was at the battle of Bunker Hill, the campaign 
ending in Burgoyne's surrender. Valley Forge, Monmouth, 
and at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown ; made pris- 
oner by the Indians in the battle of " The Cedars," 20 May, 
1776, he was robbed by them of his clothing and kept in 
confinement ten days, when' he was exchanged. He was 
again captured by the enemy in 1780 near West Point. At 
the capture of the two British redoubts at Yorktown, he was 
under the immediate command of Col. Laurens, who took 
his men between the redoubts under a heavy fire, cutting off 
the retreat of the garrison. The fire of the enemy was so 
ill-directed that Laurens did not lose a man. Williams 
removed about 1808 to Canandaigua, N. Y. 

His descent from Robert^ Williams of Roxbury, 1637, d. i Sept. 
1693, se. 86, and wife Elizabeth Stratham, who d. July, 1674, was 
through Deacon Samuelj^ b. Eng. ab. 1632, d. 28 Sept. 1698, who 
m. 2 March, 1654, Theoda, dau. of Deacon William YzxV; Park^ 
b. 1 1 T'lu. 1677, d. 1757, and Priscilla, who d. 1742, se. 71 ; Eben- 
ezer* who settled in Lebanon, Ct., and m. Mary, dau. of Andrew 
Veach ; Jonathan^ (his father), who m. 26 Sept. 1744, Mary 
Whitney. 

Soijn SEIi'Ufams. 

He was the son of John, Jr., and I{llizabeth (Cutter) Wil- 
liams ; b. Groton, Mass., 4 July, 1746; d. there i Jul>', 1822. 
He was an ensign in Prescott's reg. at Bunker Hill ; 1st lieut. 



CmCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 517 

in 177C; com. capt. 7 July, 1777, in the 12th reg., and was in 
Vose's (ist) reg. from 1781 to its disbandment, 3 Nov. 1783. 
He m. Molly Everett, and had twelve children, five of whom 
d. young. 

JOHN WILLIAMS. 

Eldest son of Capt. John, whom he succ. in 1826; b. 
Groton, Mass., i April, 1774; d. in Dover, Mass., leaving a 
widow, Sally B., who was je. JJ in 1859. 

Josrpij WiHUamn. 

He was the son of Jeremiah and Catharine (Payson) Wil- 
liams ; b. Springfield, Mass., 24 March, 1753; d. Greenwich, 
Mass., 21 April, 1819. He was an ensign in Asa Whitcomb's 
(6th) reg. in 1776; was com. capt. in Greaton's (3d) reg. 
I Jan. 1777; served through the war; and during Shays's 
rebellion was intrusted by the Secretary of War, Gen. Knox, 
with the command of the U. S. arsenal at Springfield. He left 
no issue. 

His descent from Robert ^ of Roxbury was through Stephen? b. 
8 Nov. 1640, d. 15 Feb. 1720, who m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Wise ; 
Joseph? b. 24 Feb. 1682 ; Jeremiah? b. 5 Oct. 1718, d. 1762, who 
m. I 743, Catharine Payson. 

HENRY HOWELL WILLIAMS, JR. 

He was the son of Henry Howell and Sally (Williams) 
Williams, and grand-nephew of Capt. Joseph, whom he 
succ. in 1826. His mother was the dau. of Edward Payson 
Williams, the elder brother of Capt. Joseph. He was b. 
Ro.xbury, Mass., i March, 1804; d. Charleston, S. C, 22 
Sept. 1868. After an apprenticeship with H. H. Tuckerman 
in the dry-goods business in Cornhill, Boston, he finally 
succ. Ezra Dyer in the same business and place. Being 
unsuccessful, he removed to Charleston, S C, ab. 1829. 



5l8 BIOGR.\PHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

He m. 8 June, 1838, Anna E. Prince, who d. 26 Sept. 186S. 
Children — 

Henry Howell, b. 9 May, 1839, m. 20 Dec. 1866, Susan Jane 
Robinson. He was elected a member of the Society in 1873, 
but failed to qualify. His son Henry Howell was b. 4 Nov. 
1867. 

Nancy Burxap, b. 30 Aug. 1840, m. 17 Jan. 1863, S. N. Brown. 

Gilbert Fearing, b. 10 Aug. 1842, an Episcopal clergyman. 

Harriet Elizabeth, b. 23 May, 1845, d. 15 April, 1847. 

Harriet Ardell\, b. 23 Feb. 1848. 

Koficrt KSlilHams. 

He was the son of Robert and Ann (Boylston) Williams, 
and was b. in Boston, July 24, 1753. He entered the I3oston 
Latin School in 1762; graduated at Harvard Uni\ersity in 
1773, and began the study of medicine under Dr. Warren, 
but finding it distasteful he did not pursue it. At the begin- 
ning of the Revolutionary war he was Master of the Roxbury 
Latin School. The State of Massachusetts having been em- 
powered by Congress in Sept., 1776, to raise, besides her 
quota of fifteen battalions, three additional ones, Cols. Wni. 
R. Lee, Henry Jackson, and David Henley were appointed 
to raise and command them. 

These three organizations were, 9 April, 1779, incorpor- 
ated into one, under Col. Henry Jackson ; and Mr. Williams, 
who had been appointed paymaster in Lee's on 3 June, 
1777, received a new appointment in Jackson's as regimental 
cloth.ier, 5 April, 1779; ensign and paymaster, 24 April, 1779; 
and 1st lieut. 12 April, 1782. At the close of the war he 
paid off the 4th, 9th, and i6th regiments, which had previ- 
ously been consolidated, and which under Col. Henrj^ Jack- 
son formed the last body of troops retained in service, being 
finally disbanded in June, 1784. Jackson's reg. was con- 
spicuous for its soldier-like appearance and discipline ; and 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 519 

having been raised in Boston, and mostly officered by natives 
of that town, was called the " Boston " regiment. It took 
part in the battles of Monmouth and Springfield, N. J.; in 
Sullivan's R. I. campaign ; was with Washington in camp at 
Morristown during the dreadful winter of 1779, and at West 
Point in 1780, after the discovery of Arnold's treason. Lieut. 
Williams served as a volunteer under Gen. Lincoln in sup- 
pressing Shays's rebellion in Feb., 1787. 

After the termination of the war, Mr. Williams was en- 
gaged in mercantile business, and was part owner of the 
ship " Commerce." In 1791 he sailed in her to the East 
Indies. On the night of 10 July, 1792, the ship, while on 
her way from Madras to Bombay, went ashore on the Ara- 
bian coast, near Cape Morbat. Her company, excepting 
three persons who were drowned in the attempt, reached the 
shore in safety ; but almost immediately after landing, they 
were stripped and plundered by a large party of Arabs. 
After the Arabs left them, they picked up a few articles of 
clothing on the beach, but of these, too, they were robbed on 
the journey. Naked and destitute, they endeavored to make 
their way to Muscat, some 500 miles distant in a direct line. 
Their route lay through the burning sands of the desert, and 
over rocky and precipitous mountains, which afforded neither 
food nor water. They were exposed, naked, to a scorching 
sun in the daytime, and at night to cold and heavy dews, and 
were subject to the constant depredations of thieves and rob- 
bers. On the ninth day Mr. Williams, whose shoes had been 
taken from him the day before, gave out and was left to die, 
his companions covering him with branches of the prickly- 
thorn tree to keep off the jackals. He, however, revived 
sufficiently after their departure to crawl back to a pool of 
water they had left a few hours before, where he caught some 
frogs, and where he stayed several days in the greatest ex- 
tremity of human suffering. Then art Arab came to water 



520 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

his camel, and he — partly, perhaps, through pity, but chiefly 
in the hope of gain — consented • to take Mr. Williams to 
Muscat, whence he returned home by way of Bombay and 
England, reaching Boston in 1794. Mr. Williams ever after- 
ward avoided all mention of this distressing subject, filled as 
it was with recollections of so painful and revolting a char- 
acter. Only eight of the seventeen ;,vhite men who landed 
on the Arabian coast survived the terrible hardships and 
privations of the journey. A journal of their travels and 
sufferings, written by Daniel Saunders, Jr., and edited by 
Dr. William Bentley, was published in Salem in 1794. 

Mr. Williams, after his return to Boston, resumed mer- 
cantile business, which he carried on successfully. 

He was a Selectman of the town from 1811 to 181 7, and 
was Treasurer of the Society of the Cincinnati from 
1811 until his death, which occurred, 16 Nov. 1834, at his 
residence on Fort Hill. 

Mr. Williams was m. three times. On 20 May, 17S7, to 
Bethiah, dau. of David Pearce, by whom he had three sons 
and one daughter, — Robert Pearce ; George ; Charles ; Harriet. 
On 20 Dec. 1803, he m. Hannah, dau. of James and Eleanor 
(Campbell) Jameson of Maine, and had three sons and one daugh- 
ter, — Eleanor Jameson ; Sidney Boylston ; Horace ; George, 2d. 
On 29 July, 1 82 1, he m. Sarah, dau. of James Maxwell; and 
one son, Sidney Boylston, was b. to them, who d. in Montreal. 
Eleanor Jameson, now Mrs. Walter Baker, is the only surviving 
child. 

The following letter from La Fayette was addressed to Mr. 
Williams in reply to a communication from some of the sur- 
viving officers of the army, soliciting his influence in support 
of their just claims upon Congress : — 

La Grange, Nov. 24, 1S25. 

My dear Brothers and Companions in Arms, — It would be 
superfluous to tell you that your letter from Boston, 20 June, has ex- 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 52 I 

cited my warmest feelings, and that during my too short stay in the 
United States I have not lost sight of its most interesting object. 

But as it is probable the matter alluded to will be taken up to- 
wards the middle or before the end of the session, I have thought it 
was no impropriety on my part, and there might be motives, was it 
only from a sense of duty as well as of affection, to address some 
friends on the occasion ; namely, those you have mentioned, and also 
the President, whose personal sentiments on this our business I 
cannot question. 

Among the advantages I have derived from the immense bounty 
in my behalf of the people and their representatives in Congress, I 
would reckon the first of them the gratification to think it has fur- 
nished my dear comrades a successful argument to forward their 
claims. 

Accent the affectionate regard, love, and wishes of your old 
companion in arms, 

La Fayette. 

To Daniel Jackson, Francis Green, Robert Williams, Revolutionary 
officers, Boston. 

Mrs. Walter Baker has given to the Cincinnati Society the 
original letter from La Fayette. 



ROBERT PEARCE WILLIAMS. 

He was the eldest son of Robert, whom he succ. in 1837, 
and was b. Boston, 11 March, 1788; d. St. Louis, Mo., 22 
April, 185 1. He began the bookselling business with his 
brother Charles, under the style of R. P. & C. Williams, in 
1801, and continued for thirty-five years to hold an honorable 
place in the trade in Boston. This firm published many val- 
uable works, among others a fine edition of the Book of Com- 
mon Prayer; the works of Peter Pindar, in four volumes; and 
Shakspeare's works, in five volumes, handsomely printed by 
J. T. Buckingham. Mr. R. P. Williams removed to St. Louis 
after 1837, and carried on the book business there. 



522 lUOGRAI'inCAL NOTICES OF THE 

He 111. in April, 1S14, Nancy Bliss, dau. of Ebenezer and Eleanor 
Whitney of Belchertown (b. 26 June, 1790). They had — 
Nancy, b. 27 Jan. 18 15 
Eliza, b. 18 Nov. 1816, d. 7 July, 1832. 
Alexander, b. 24 Aug. 18 18. 
Harriet, b. i Nov. 1820, d. 11 Nov 1845. 
E.MiLV, b. 13 March, 1823. 
CiARissA Whitney, b. 26 Jan. 1825. 
Robert, b. 25 June, 1S27. 
Th(1iM.as Penhallow, b. 18 Oct. 1828. 
Mary Penhallow, b. 21 Feb. 1831. 

ALEXANDER WILLIAMS. 

Eldest son of Robert P. Williams, whom he succ. in 1862; 
was b. Boston, 24 Aug. 1818. In 1839 he commenced in 
Boston the newspaper and periodical business, then in its in- 
fancy, but which, stimulated b\- cheap issues of the novels of 
Charles Dickens, Bulvver, and others, soon attained extensive 
proportions, the sales of a single day being counted by 
thousands. This business, which is now carried on by the 
American News Company, has reached the enormous sum of 
twelve million dollars per annum. In 1868 Mr. Williams suc- 
ceeded E. P. Button & Co. at the " Old Corner Bookstore" 
in Boston (formerh- occupied b}'Ticknor & Fields), probably 
the oldest brick building in Boston, and one of its noted land- 
marks, bearing the date of 17 12. It stands on the corner of 
Washington and School Streets, and has long been the 
resort of lovers of good literature. Dickens, Thackeray, 
Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, and many- 
other distinguished writers of the last half-centur3\ have been 
welcomed within its walls. Mr. Williams retired from active 
business as a bookseller in 1S83. 

He m. in Cohasset, 6 Marrh, \^44, Elizabeth Collier, b. 7 Feb. 
1S22, d. 30 Sept. iSSi. Children — 



CIN'CINXATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 523 

Robert, b. 26 May, 1846. 
Helen ALjlRli. 
Marv Lewis. 
Alexander. 
Charles Collier. 

Jonatf)an WLirxQ, 

A descendant of John Wing of Sandwich, and probably 
the son of Samuel and Anne (Barlow) Wing, b. Rochester, 
Mass., 31 July, 1731. Com. ensign, 19 Oct. 1781 ; in Vose's 
(ist) reg. in 1783. 

Joljn eitiiislott). 

John, eldest son of John and Eliza (Mason) Winslow, was 
b. Boston, 29 Sept. 1753; d. there 29 Nov. 1819. He was 
before the war a clerk in the hardware store of his uncle, 
Jonathan Mason, deacon of the Old South Church, whose 
place of business was on the east side of Washington Street, 
opposite Williams Court, and who, as the custom then was, 
lived over his store. John was in Boston during its occu- 
pation by the British troops in 1775, and wa? the one who 
recognized Gen. Warren's body the day after the battle of 
Bunker Hill. He buried the communion plate of the Old 
South Church in the cellar of his uncle's house to prevent 
it from falling into the hands of the British. Being desirous 
of getting away from Boston, he enlisted on a British vessel 
bound for Newport, R. I., at which place he deserted; was 
appointed by Gov. Trumbull deputy paymaster, rank of 
lieut., in the Northern department, and accompanied Mont- 
gomery to Quebec ; was com. capt. in Crane's reg. of ar- 
tillery, 8 June, I J/ J ; was present at White Plains, and in 
the battles ending with the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga, 
remaining in the artillery until discharged, 5 Nov. 1778. 
Upon two occasions, during the retreat from Quebec and 
from Ticonderoga, he saved valuable public property. At 



524 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE 

the close of the war he became his uncle's partner in the 
hardware business, which he afterward carried on upon his 
own account. In 18 10 he lost his property by an unex- 
pected failure. His honor and integrity, however, remained 
unquestioned, and the people placed him seven years suc- 
cessively (1812-19) in the responsible office of County 
Treasurer. He was captain of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Co. in 1792 and 1798; was chosen brig.-gen. of 
the Boston legionary brigade in 1799; and in 1809 was 
chosen maj.-gen. of the first division Mass. militia, but did 
not accept. He was also a member of the Legislature ; 
was Assist. Treas. of the Society in 1 794-1 809; Treas- 
urer in 1 809-11. 

His descent from John * (brother of Gov. Edward) Winslow, b. 
1597, came over in the "Fortune" in 1623, d. Boston, Oct. 1674, 
who m. Mary Chilton, was through yi^/iw,'' b. ab. 1627, d. Oct. 1683, 
and wife Elizabeth ; John," b. 22 May, 1669, d. i Jan. 1694-95, who 
m. Abigail Atkinson, 18 June, 1689 ; John* b. 30 Dec. 1693, d. at 
sea, 31 Oct. 1 731, m. 21 Sept. 1721, Sarah Yiexce ; John^ (his 
father), b. 5 March, 1725, d. 29 Sept. 1773, who m. 12 March, 
I 752, Eliza Mason. 

He m. 21 May, 1782, Ann Gardner (b. 26 July, 1755, d. 12 Nov. 
1836). They had eight children, — six sons and two daughters. 

JOHN WINSLOW 

Eldest son of John, whom he succ. in 1822; b. Boston, 
27 Feb. 1783; d. Belmont, Mass., 20 Aug. 1868. 

He m. 27 Oct. 1808, Sally Spear Bray (b. 3 March, 1787, d. 18 
Oct. 1844). Children who left issue — 

John, 10 July, 1809, m. 21 Oct. 1835, Margaret Hall of Liver- 
pool, Eng., and h3,A John and Ann Jane. 

Charles Edward, 31 Jan. 1812, d. 23 IVLiy, 1837, m. 31 Jan. 
1834, Mary A. Trull, and had Charles Henry. 

OziAS Goodwin, 30 May, 1813, d. 3 Dec. 1842, m. 15 Nov. 1838, 
Julia Martineau, and had Nathan Foster, b. 18 Oct. 1839. 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSE'nS. 525 

CHARLES HENRY VVINSLOW. 

Son of Charles Edward, and grandson of John Winslow, 
whom he succ. in 1870; b. Boston, 11 June, 1835 ; d. Worces- 
ter (Insane Asylum), 16 March, 1 881. He was a carpenter 
residing in Belmont when the war of the Rebellion broke 
out, and was the first man in that town who enlisted in 
the Union army, having joined the Boston Light Artillery 
Co., Capt. Cook, 20 April, 1861. He served with it in 
Maryland four months. He was then engaged at the Arse- 
nal at Watertown until 23 Dec. 1863, when he enlisted in 
the iith Mass. battery, with which he served in the cam- 
paign of 1864-65 in Virginia, from the Wilderness to the 
surrender of Lee. He was promoted to corporal for gal- 
lant conduct in the battle at Preble House on the Weldon 
Railroad; was com. 2d lieut. 5th Mass. cav., 18 Nov. 1864, 
and was among the first to enter Richmond, 3 April, 1865. 
He was mustered out at Clarksville, Tex., 18 Oct. 1865. 

He m. 22 March, 1859, Jennie P. Dawson. Children — 

John Edward. 

Maybell Josephine, b. Belmont, 27 July, 1865. 

JOHN EDWARD WIXSLOW. 

Eldest son of Charles Henry, whom he succ. in 1889; was 
b. Boston, I Jan. i860. He served as a private in the U. S. 
army from i Feb. 1883, until 24 May, 1884, when he was 
app corporal; promoted to be sergt. 21 May, 1885; and 
1st sergt. 7 March, 1887; received an honorable discharge 
at Fort Buford, Dak., on the expiration of his term of 
service, 30 Jan. 1888. Resides in Cambridge, Mass., and 
is a member of the police force of that city. 

He m. 25 Oct. 1881, Matilda H., dau. of Donald Charles Mac- 
Kinnon. Children — 

Charles Henry, b. 10 June, 1882. 
Jennie Madeline, b. 9 Dec. 1S89. 



525 BIUGRAl'IIICAL NOTICES OK THE 



JOSHUA HUNTINGTON WOLCOTT. 

Grandson of Hon. Oliver Wolcott, an oric^inal member 
of the Ct. Society, was b. Litchfield, Ct., 29 Aug. 1804, and 
was admitted in 1876, under the rule of 1854. He came 
to Boston at the age of seventeen; and in 1830 became 
a member of the firm of A. & A. Lawrence & Co. This 
firm bore a leading part in the development of the great 
manufacturing and commercial interests of New England, 
and throughout its long and honorable career sustained a 
reputation for energy, sagacity, and probity which was 
unsurpassed. Mr. Wolcott was connected with the firm 
until it retired from business in 1865. During the war of 
the Rebellion he was Treasurer of the Mass. branch of 
the Sanitary Commission. He has filled many positions in 
trust and benevolent institutions, and in the management 
of manufacturing corporations and banks. He resides in 
Boston and Milton. 

His descent from Ilcniy'^ IVolcolt, b. in Tolland, Somersetshire, 
Eng., 1578, m. 10 Jan. 1606, Elizabeth Saunders, who came to this 
country in 1630, and settled first in Dorchester, Mass., removed to 
Windsor, Ct.. in 1635, and d. 30 May, 1655, was through Simon,'^ 
b. Tolland, Eng., 1625, who came to this country and joined his 
father in Connecticut, 1637, m. 17 Oct. 1661, Martha, sister of Sir 
WilUam Pitkin, d. 11 ept. 1687; Wow. Rcger^ b. Windsor, Ct., 4 
Jan. 1679, m. 3 Dec. 1702, Sarah Drake, d. 17 May, 1767, Gov. of 
Connecticut and second in command of the expedition which re- 
sulted in the capture of Louisburg ; Hon. Oliver.* b. Windsor, 
Ct, I Dec. 1726, m. 21 Jan. 1755, Lorana Collins of Guilford, 
Ct., d. Litchfield. Ct., i Dec. 1797, member of the Continental 
Congress, signer of the Declaration, maj.-gen. of militia, Gov. 
of Connecticut, etc.; Hon. Frederick^ (his father), b. Litchfield, 
Ct., 2 Nov. 1767, d. 28 May, 1837, m. 12 Oct. 1800, Betsey, dau. 
of Col. Joshua Huntington. 

Joshua Huntington Wolcott m. (ist) 12 Nov. 1S44. Cornelia, dau. 
of Samuel and Eliza (Atkins) Frnthingham. Children — 



CINCINNATI OF MASSACHUSETTS. 527 

Huntington Frothingham, b. 4 Feb. 1846; d. 10 June, 1865, 
from disease contracted in the army. Before he was nineteen 
years old he received from Gov. Andrew a commission as 2d 
lieut. in the 2d reg. of Mass. cavalry, and was app. aid to Gen. 
Gibbs. He took part in the toilsome and brilliant campaign 
under Sheridan which resulted in cutting off Lee's retreat from 
Richmond and thus compelling his surrender. 

Roger, b. 13 July, 1847. 

Cornelia F., d. 1 June, 1850. 

He m. (2d) 12 Nov. 185 1, Harriet Frothingham, sister of his 
first wife. 

©tristojjfjrc saiootrtiriTiflc. 

He was a capt.-licut. in Wigglesworth's (13th) reg. in Sulli- 
van's R. I. campaign in 1778; was com. capt. same reg. 10 
April, 1779, and was in Mellen's (3d) reg. in 1783. He d. in 
Newcastle, Me., in March, 1825. His widow Sarah was 
living in Jjallowell in 1871. 

•Samuel SJHootrluarti. 

He was the son of Rev. Samuel, of Weston, Mass.; was 
b. there 11 July, 1756; H. U. 1776. He was surgeon's 
mate in Shepard's (4th) reg., and was transferred to Crane's 
artillery, 24 May, 1782. In Feb. 1784, he settled in New- 
burgh, N. Y., and d. there 29 March, 1785. He m. in Feb. 
1784, Martha Horton, and left a son who d. in infancy. 

His descent hom Richaj-d^ JF^w/r^tzn/ of Watertown, 1634, free- 
man 1635, b. 1589, d. 16 Feb. 1664-65, and wife Rose, who d. 1662, 
se. 80, was through George,"^ b. Eng. 1621, d. 31 May, 1676, and 
wife Mary ■,Johri,^h. 28 March, 1649, will dated 26 Feb. 1727-28, who 
m. (2d) Mary Bancroft of Reading; FJ>eticzer* b. 12 March, 1690- 
91, who m. 26 Jan. 1716, Mindwell Stone; Rev. Samuel^ (his 
father), b. i Feb. 1727, H. U. 1748, d. 5 Oct. 1782. He had, be- 
side Surgeon Samuel and several daughters, a son Warham (1765- 
1804), a merchant of Charleston, S. C. 



5 28 BIOGRArHICAL NOTICES. 

Joljn yromaus. 

He was com. ensign in Sht-piird's (4th) reg. 10 Feb. 1778 ; 
lieut. 15 April, 1780; and was in the campaign in Rhode 
Island under Sullivan. He was Inspector of Customs at 
Newport from 1790 to his death, 12 July, 1827, se. 72. His 
widow Martha was living there in Nov. 1841, ae. 88. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 



DR. WILLIAM EUSTIS'S STATEMENT CONCERNING 
THE ORIGIN OF THE CINCINNATI. 

A T the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society, 4 July, 1 848, 
•^"^ the following letter, written by Dr. William Eustis about the 
year 1783, was read and ordered to be transcribed on the Record 
Book of the Society : — 

Boston (no date). 

Whereas the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati, founded on 
Hudson River, in the State of New York, in the year of our Lord 1782, 
has caused much speculation and jealousy among the people of America 
and in the nations of Europe ; and whereas at some future day that 
Society may grow into greater consequence and become of more impor- 
tance than at present is generally imagined, — 

I, William Eustis of Boston, being a member of said Society, and 
being a member and present on the spot when the instrument of its insti- 
tution was formed, do think it fit to make record of the first moving in 
the said institution, so far as came to my own knowledge and observation. 
I was a surgeon in the General Hospital of the American Army, then at 
quarters at New Windsor and [at] West Point on Hudson's River in the 
year 1782. 

Sometime after the orders of Congress for disbanding the army were 
known in camp, Capt. Richmond, formerly of the American [Maryland] 
line, then aide-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Gates, said, in a conversation at 
my quarters, that it was unhappy that such a band of friends and brothers 
should be separated perhaps never to meet again : and asked if there could 
be no plan fallen upon by which these old friends might meet again once 
in a number of years, and desired me to think on the subject. In a day 
or two he again came to my quarters and said he had thought of a plan, 
which was that the officers should meet m some central place of the con- 



532 APPENDIX. 

tinent, and form some kind of society to preserve that friendship which 
so strongly subsisted between them. He gave me a sheet of paper con- 
taining several proposals for this purpose, and desired me to form an 
association or some writing constituting a society to prevent their friend- 
ship from the sudden death of a total and final separation. I took his 
paper of proposals and tliought on the subject. In about a week or ten 
days afterward I heard that such a design was executing at West Point 
among the officers tliere, and it was not long before the proposals came 
out from which were formed the articles which now make the institution 
of the Society of the Cincinnati ; and I do hereby record and declare that 
the first syllable I ever heard of any association among the officers came 
from Capt. Richmond, in the manner before mentioned. This evidence 
I have chosen to commit to writing, because it has been asserted by some 
that this institution originated among the general field officers in the 
American army, and by others that it originated in the Court of France, 
and has been imputed as a stroke of policy in that nation. Now, in the 
instance here recorded, it appears that the Society grew naturally out of 
the affections of the ofticer.s, from a desire to perpetuate their friendships 
and to commemorate their sufferings with a virtuous sympathy which 
Heaven could not behold with disapprobation. 

In the warmth of affection Capt. Richmond suggested his proposal, and 
before it could be reduced to system congenial feelings suggested ideas 
of the same kind among the other officers, and his intentions were 
anticipated. 

A meeting of the officers — that is, a proper deputation from each line 
of the army — were [j-zV] convened, and the institution as agreed upon by 
them was handed about and signed by all who chose to become parties to 
this institution. 

If, after this, the members of this Society become noble, their nobility 
will never be enhanced by the gratitude or generosity oi their country, 
but must be derived solely from their own underived naked merit. 

By the Congress they were styled the Patriot, and Posterity will call 
them the unpaid Army. 

William Eustis. 



APPENDIX, 533 



STATEMENT IN RELATION TO THE ORIGINAL 
MEMBERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY. 

The autograph list of original members of the Massachusetts 
Society, deposited in Uie safety vault of the New England Historic- 
Genealogical Society, contains the names of 320 officers. What 
purported to be a fac-simile of this list was given in the appendix 
to the memorial volume of 1873; but instead of photographing 
the names just as they appear on the original sheets, they were re- 
arranged for the purpose, apparently, of making a neater-looking 
job ; and, in consequence, a number of mistakes were made. In 
several instances names written " by order " were made to appear 
as original signatures, and in many cases the rank was changed. 
The names of " E. Davis" and " Eben Davis" appear in the pho- 
tograph list ; but on the original list it appears clearly that " E. 
Davis" signs "in behalf of Eben Peabody." 

The list of original members printed in 181 2 * contains 333 names. 
On comparing this list with the original autograph list, it appears that 
nine names on the autograph list are omitted and twenty-two new 
names are added. It would appear that eight of the nine officers 
whose names were dropped had failed to contribute their month's 
pay, and that the other officer whose name was dropped had been 
transferred to the New York Society. The twenty-two names added 
represented officers who had contributed a month's pay, but had 
neglected to sign the original articles. Although considerable care 
appears to have been taken in preparing this list, the names of a 
number of officers who had failed to make their contribution were 
inserted. At the meeting of the Standing Committee, 3 July, r8i6, 
the following vote was adopted and reported at the annual meeting 
of the Society on the following day : — 

" That the following gentlemen, who have been heretofore considered 
as members, and whose names are entered on the printed book (1S12), 

* A list was printed in 1801, but I have not lieen able to find a copy among 
the Society's documents or in the Boston libraries. There was a copy in the 
Barlow collection, sold in New York City in Feb iSgo — J. M. B. 



534 APPENDIX. 

Iiave no credit as having paid their month's pay, and therefore are not 
and cannot be considered as ever having been qualified legal members ; 
namely, Oliver Brown, Josiah [Isaiah] Bussey, Osgood Carleton, 
Belcher Hancock, Bartlett Hinds, Michael Jackson [Jr.], John Johns- 
ton, Eben Peabody, Peleg Turner. But if either of them shall pay to the 
Treasurer of this Society the one month's pay which was originally contem- 
plated to be paid, he shall be entitled to succeed his ancestor upon such 
payment being made within one year after the said successor shall arrive 
at the age of twenty-one years."' 

The "Journal," showing the cash receipts and expenditures, is 
perhaps the best authority for a correct list of original members, as 
it is supposed to give the names and rank of all who contributed a 
month's pay, with the exact amount of the contribution. According 
to the letter of the Institution an officer was not considered qualified 
for membership until he had signed the general rules and made his 
contribution ; but evidently the neglect to sign the declaration was 
not considered as sufficient cause for dropping a name from the roll, 
while the neglect to make the contribution was so considered. An 
exception appears to have been made in the case of Luke Day and 
Elijah Day, who had made their contribution but had failed to sign 
the declaration. They took part in Shays's Rebellion, — the only two 
members of the Massachusetts Society who proved disloyal, — and at 
the meeting of the Society in July, 1787, the Treasurer was instructed 
to return their contribution, and it was placed on record that they 
" were not and never had been considered members of the Society." * 
An examination of the Treasurer's Journal shows that the nine men 
whose names are given in the report of 1816, as also the eight men 
whose names were dropped in the list of 1812, had not contributed 
a month's pay. If the Hst of 1 8 1 2 is corrected by striking from it 
the names of delinquents as reported in 181 6, and by adding the name 
of William Torrey, who contributed his month's pay but who was 
afterward transferred to the New York Society, it will be found to 
correspond exactly with the list in the Treasurer's Journal. 

* Capt. Matthew Parke, of the U. S. Marines, was admitted a member of the 
Society in 1787, and signed the articles. It subsequently appeared that he had 
been tried by court-martial, in 17S3, for disobedience of orders, and sentenced 
to forfeit his commission. After investigating the matter the Standing Com- 
mittee voted that Capt. Parke was disqualified from being a member His 
month's pay was returned, and his name was erased from the rolls. Capt. Parke 
acquiesced in the decision and icturnLil liis diploma. 



APPENDIX. 535 

Of the seventeen names on the autograph list that do not appear 
on the Treasurer's Journal fourteen had no suocessors, and only one is 
now represented. 

The list of 1859, prepared by Col. James W. Sever, the Secretary, 
is, with a single exception, the same as the list of 181 2. 

Drake's list of original members, printed in 1872, contained all 
the names on the autograph list (including those dropped from the 
list of 1 81 2), all the names on the list of 181 2, and two that do not 
appear as original members on either list, — namely, Andrew Craigie 
(an original member of the New York Society, who had taken up his 
residence in this State) ; and Henry Reidel, of whom little is known. 
The total number given in his list is 344. 

In the archives of the General Society there is a parchment roll 
containing the names of 97 members of the Institution, which ap- 
pears to have been signed before the State Societies were organized. 
Washington's name heads the list.* It contains a number of names 
which appear on the autograph list of the Massachusetts Society, and 
also the following names which do not appear on that list but which 
are included in the printed list of 181 2 : — 

William Heath, Major-General. 

Benjamin Mooers, Lieut, and Adjutant. 

Edward Bugbee, Lieutenant. 

William Satterlee, Captain. 

It also contains the name of " Henry Riedell," Lieutenant in 
Gen. Armand's corps. 

A correct copy of the autograph list is appended, and also a list of 
the names added to, and the names omitted from, the list of 18 12. 

* The original copy of the "Institution " of the Society, reported by the com- 
mittee of officers and adopted by the representatives of the American army at 
the meeting, 13 May, 1783, is now in the possession of the Hon. Hamilton Fish, 
and contains thirty-six signatures, Washington's being at the head- The names 
of the officers on that roll who became members of the Massachusetts Soci- 
ety are as follows . Heath, Lincoln, Knox, Paterson, Greaton (John), Putnam, 
Pickering, Jackson (Henry), Shaw, Hull, Whitwell, Pettengill, Knap, Whiting, 
Brooks, and Maxwell. 



536 



THE AUTOGRAPH LIST. 



A. 

Abbot, Stephen, Captain. 
Abbott, Josiali, Ensign. 
Adams, Henry, Regimental Surgeon. 
Aldan, Judali, Captain. 
Allen, Natlianiel C, Captain. 
Ames, Jotliam, Lieutenant. 
Andrews, William, Lieutenant. 
Armstrong, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Ashley, Moses, Major. 
Austin, John, Lieutenant. 



Bailey, Adams, Captain. 
Bailey, Luther, Captain. 
Balcom, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
Baldwin, Jeduthan, Colonel. 
Ballantine, Ebenezer, Surgeon's 

Mate. 
Ballard, William H., Major. 
Bancroft, James, Lieutenant. 
Bassett, Barachiah, Lieut. -Colonel. 
Baury de Bellerive, Captain. 
Baylies, Hodijah, Lieut.-Colonel. 
Benson, Joshua, Captain. 
Blake, Edward, Lieutenant. 
Blanchard, John, Captain. 
Blodget, Caleb, Lieutenant. 
Bowles, Ralph H., Lieutenant and 

Adjutant. 
Bowman, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Bradford, Gamaliel, Colonel. 
Bradford, Gamaliel, Lieutenant. 
Bradford, Roliert, Captain. 
Bramhall, Jo.shua, Lieutenant. 



Brigham, Origin. Surgeon's Mate. 
Brooks, John, LieutenantColonel- 

Comniandant. 
Brown, Ebenezer, Lieutenant. 
Brown, Oliver, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Bullard, Asa, Lieutenant. 
Burbeck, Henry, Captain. 
Burnam, John, Major. 
Bussey, Isaiah, Captain- Lieutenant. 

C. 

Callender, John, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Carleton, iVIoses, Lieutenant. 
Carleton, Osgood, Lieutenant. 
Castaing, [Peter], Lieutenant.* 
Chambers, Matthew, Captain. 
Chapin, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Clap, Caleb, Captain. 
Clap, Joshua, Lieutenant. 
Clayes, Peter, Captain. 
Cobb, David, Lieutenant-Colonel- 
Commandant. 
Cogswell, Amos, Captain. 
Cogswell, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Cogswell, Thomas, Major. 
Condy, Thomas H., Lieutenant. 
Cook, David, Captain. 
Cooper, Ezekiel, Captain. 
Cooper, Samuel, Adjutant. 
Crane, Jolin, Colonel. 
Crane, John, Regimental Surgeon. 
Crocker, Joseph, Captain. 
Crowley, Florence, Lieutenant. 
Cushing, Nathaniel, Captain. 
Cushing, Thomas. Lieutenant. 



* Ills Christian name does not appear on the Autograph List. 



ArPEXDIX. 



5. 



D. 

Dana, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 

Danfortli, Joshua, Lieutenant. 

Daniels, Japlieth, Captain. 

Darby, Samuel, Major. 

Davi.s, Ebenezer, Lieutenant and 
Brigade Quartermaster. 

Davis, James, Lieutenant. 

Davis, John, Lieutenant and Adju- 
tant. 

Dix, Nathan, Captain. 

Dodge, Levi, Lieutenant. 

Dolliver, Peter, Captain. 

Donnell, Nathaniel, Captain.* 

Drew, Seth, Major. 

Duffield, John, Regimental Surgeon. 



Eaton, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 
Edwards, Thomas, Lieutenant and 

Judge-Advocate. 
Egleston, Azariah, Lieutenant and 

Paymaster. 
Emerson, Nehemiah, Captain. 
Emery, Ephraim, Captain. 
Eustis, William, Hospital Surgeon. 
Everett, Pelatiah, Lieutenant. 
Eysandeau, William, Lieutenant. 



Felt, Jonathan, Captain. 

Fernald, Tobias, Lieut-Colonel. 

Finley, James E. B., Regimental 
Surgeon. 

Finley, Samuel, Regimental Sur- 
geon. 

Fisk, Joseph, Regimental Surgeon. 

Floyd, Ebenezer, Ensign. 

Foster, Elisha, Ensign. 

Foster, Thomas, Lieutenant. 

Fowles, John, Captain. 

Freeman, Constant, Captain-Lieut. 



Freeman, Thomas D., Lieutenant. 
Frink, Samuel, Ensign. 
Frost. Samuel, Captain. 
Frothingham, Benjamin, Captain. 
Frye, Frederick, Ensign. 
Fuller, John, Captain. 



Gardner, James, Captain. 
Garrett, Andrew, Lieutenant. 
George, John, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Gibbs, Caleb, Major. 
Gilbert, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 
Goodwin, F. L. B., Surgeon's Mate. 
Greaton, John, Brigadier-General. 
Greaton, John W., Ensign. 
Greaton, Richard H., Ensign. 
Green, Francis, Captain. 
Greenleaf, William, Lieutenant. 
Gridley, John, Captain-Lieutenant. 

H. 

Hall, James, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Hamlin, Africa, Ensign. 
Hancock, Belcher, Captain. 
Hart, John, Regimental Surgeon. 
Hartshorn, Thomas, Captain. 
Harvey, Elisha, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Haskell, Elnathan, Captain. 
Haskell, Jonathan. Lieutenant. 
Hastings, John, Captain. 
Heywood, Benjamin, Captain. 
Hildreth, William, Lieutenant. 
Hill, Jeremiah, Lieutenant. 
Hinds. Bartlett, Captain-Lieutenant. 
Hiwill, John, Lieutenant, and In- 
spector of Music. 
Hobby, John, Captain. 
Holbrook, David, Captain. 
Holden, Abel, Captain. 
Holden, John, Lieutenant. 
Holden, Levi, Lieutenant. 



* See note, post, p. 541. 



538 



APPENDIX. 



Holland, Ivory, Lieutenant. 
Holland, Park, Lieutenant. 
Hollister, Jesse, Captain. 
Romans, John, Surgeon. 
Hooker, Zibeon, Lieutenant. 
Horton, Elisha, Ensign. 
Houdin, M. G., Captain. 
Howe, Richard S., Ensign. 
Hull, William, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Hunt, Ephraim, Lieutenant. 
Hunt, Thomas, Captain. 
Hurd, John, Ensign. 

L 
Ingersoll, George, Lieutenant. 



Jackson, Amasa, Ensign. 
Jackson, Charles, Ensign. 
Jackson, Daniel, Lieutenant. 
Jackson, Elienezer, Lieutenant. 
Jackson, Henry, Colonel. 
Jackson, Michael, Colonel. 
Jackson, Michael, Lieutenant. 
Jackson, Simon, Captain. 
Jackson, Thomas, Captain. 
Jefferds, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Johnston, John, Captain. 

K. 
Killam, Joseph, Captain. 
King, Zebulon, Captain. 
Knap, Moses, Major. 
Knowles, Charles, Captain-Lieut. 
Knox, Henry, Major- General. 

L. 

Earned, Simon, Captain. 
Laughton, William, Surgeon's Mate. 
Leavenworth, Nathaniel, Surgeon's 

Mate. 
Lee, Daniel, Captain. 
Lee, William R , Colonel. 



Leland, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
Leonard, Jacob, Ensign. 
Lillie, John, Captain. 
Lincoln, Benjamin, Major-General. 
Liswell, John, Lieutenant. 
Lockwood, William, Chaplain. 
Lord, Jeremiah, Ensign. 
Lovell, James, Lieutenant. 
Lunt, Daniel, Captain. 
Lyman, Cornelius, Ensign. 

M. 

M'Cay, Daniel, Ensign. 
McKendry, William, Lieutenant. 
Marble, Henry, Lieutenant. 
Mason, David, Jr., Lieutenant. 
Maxwell, Hugh, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Maynard, John, Lieutenant and 

Quartermaster. 
Maynard, Jonathan, Captain. 
Maynard, William, Captain. 
Means, James, Captain. 
Mellish, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Miller, Jeremiah, Captain. 
Miller, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
I\Iills, John, Captain. 
Mills, William, Captain. 
Moor, William, Lieutenant. 
Moore, William, Captain. 
Morgan, Benjamin, Surgeon's Mate. 
Morton, Silas, Lieutenant. 
Myrick, Samuel, Lieutenant. 

N. 

Nason, Nathaniel, Lieutenant and 

Quartermaster. 
Nelson, Henry, Lieutenant. 
Newhall, Ezra, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Newman, Samuel, Lieutenant. 
Nicholson, Samuel, Captain in the 

Navy. 
Ni.xon, Thomas, Colonel. 
North, William. Captain. 



APPENDIX. 



539 



Oliver, Alexander, , Ensign. 
Oliver, Robert, Major. 

P. 

Pardee, Aaron, Lieutenant. 
Parker, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 
Parker, Ellas, Lieutenant.* 
Paterson, John, Brigadier-General. 
Peabody, Ebenezer, Lieutenant 
Peirce, John, Captain- Lieutenant. 
Peirce, Silas, Captain. 
Perkins, William, Major. 
Peters, Andrew, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Pettengill, Joseph, Major. 
Phelon, Edward, Lieutenant. 
Phelon, Patrick, Lieutenant. 
Pierce, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 
Pike, Benjamin, Captain. 
Pope, Isaac, Major. 
Popkin, John, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Porter, Benjamin Jones, Surgeon's 

Mate. 
Pratt, Joel, Lieutenant. 
Pray, John, Captain. 
Price, William, Lieutenant. 
Putnam, Rufus, Brigadier-General. 

R. 
Randall, Thomas, Captain. 
Rawson, Jeduthan, Ensign. 
Remich, Timothy, Captain. 
Rice, Nathan, Major. 
Rice, Oliver, Lieutenant. 
Richardson, Abijah, Regimental 

Surgeon. 
Rickard, William, Lieutenant. 
Ripley, Hezekiah, Lieutenant. 
Roberts, Richard B., Captain. 
Rowe, John, Ensign. 



Sampson, Crocker, Lieutenant. 

Sargent, Winthrop, Captain. 

Savage, Henry, Lieutenant. 

Savage, Joseph, Captain. 

Sawyer, James, Ensign. 

Scammell, Samuel L., Ensign. 

Scott, James, Ensign. 

Selden, Charles, Lieutenant. 

Sever, James, Ensign. 

Sewall, Henry, Captain. 

Seward, Thomas, Captain. 

Shaw, Samuel, Captain. 

Shepard, William, Ensign. 

Shute, Daniel, Regimental Surgeon. 

Smith, Ebenezer, Captain. 

Smith, Ebenezer, Captain. 

Smith, John K., Captain. 

Smith, Joseph, Lieutenant. 

Smith, Josiah, Lieutenant. 

Smith, Silvanus, Captain. 

-Spring, Simeon, Lieutenant. 

Sprout, Ebenezer, Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel-Commandant. 

Stacy, William, Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Stafford, John R., Ensign. 

Stevens, William, Captain. 

Stocker, Ebenezer, Lieutenant. 

Stone, Jonathan, Captain. 

Stone. Nathaniel, Lieutenant. 

Storer, Ebenezer, Lieutenant and 
Paymaster. 

Storey, William, Captain.f 

Sumner, Job, Major. 

Swan, Caleb Ensign. 



Taylor, Tertius, Lieutena"t. 
Taylor, William, Lieutenant and 
Quartermaster. 



* The name is written "E. J. Parker," in the autograph list, 
t The name is spelled " -Story " on the original list ; but it was so written by 
Ebenezer Jackson, who signed for Capt. Storey. 



540 



ATPEXDIX. 



Thaclier, James, Regimental Sur- 
geon. 

Thacher, Nathaniel, Lieutenant. 

Thomas, Josepli, Captain. 

Tisdale, James, Captain. 

Torrey, William, Lieutenant and 
Adjutant. 

Torrey, William, Lieutenant. 

Town, Jacob, Lieutenant. 

Townsend, David, Hospital Sur- 
geon. 

Treadwell, William, Captain. 

Trescott, Lemuel, Major. 

Trowbridge, Luther, Lieutenant. 

Trotter, John, Captain. 

Tucker, Joseph, Lieutenant and 
Paymaster. 

Tudor, William, Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Judge-Advocate-General. 

Tupper, Anselm, Lieutenant and 
Adjutant. 

Tupper, Benjamin, Colonel. 

Turner, Jonathan, Captain. 

Turner, Marlbry, Lieutenant. 

Turner, Peleg, Lieutenant. 

Turner, Thomas, Captain. 

V. 

Vose, Elijah, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Vose, Joseph, Colonel. 
Vose. Thomas, Captain. 

W. 
Wales, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
Walker, Edward, Lieutenant and 
Paymaster. 



\VaIker, Robert, Captain. 
Wardwell, Joseph, Lieutenant. 
Warren, Adriel, Lieutenant. 
Warren, James, Jr., Lieutenant in 

the Navy. 
Warren, John, Lieutenant. 
Watson, William, Captain. 
Wattles, Mason, Captain. 
Webb, George, Captain. 
Webber, Daniel, Lieutenant. 
Wellington, Elisha, Lieutenant. 
Wells, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 
Wells, James, Lieutenant. 
Wells, Thomas, Captain. 
Wesson, James, Colonel. 
White, Edward, Lieutenant 
White, Haffield, Captain. 
Whiting, John, Lieutenant. 
Whitwell, Samuel, Surgeon. 
Wilds, Ebenezer, Lieutenant. 
Williams, Abraham, Captain. 
Williams, Ebenezer, Lieutenant. 
Williams, John, Captain. 
Williams. Joseph, Captain. 
Williams, Robert, Lieutenant and 

Paymaster. 
Wing, Jonathan, Ensign. 
Winslow, John, Captain. 
Woodbridge, Christopher, Captain. 
Woodward, Samuel, Surgeon's 

Mate. 

Y. 

Yeomans, John, Lieutenant. 



541 



NAMES ON PRINTED LIST OF 1812, BUT NOT ON 
AUTOGRAPH LIST. 



Allen, Noah, Major. 

Barlow, Joel, Chaplain. 
Bradford, Andrew, Lieutenant. 
Bugbee, Edward, Lieutenant. 

Dean, Walter, Captain. 

Goodale, Nathan, Captain. 

Heath, William, Major-General. 
Holden, Aaron, Captain. 

Lincoln, Rufus, Captain. 

Mooers, Benjamin, Lieutenant. 



Morrill, Amos, Major. 

Phelon, John, Lieutenant. 
Prescott, Joseph, Hospital Mate. 

Reab,* George, Lieutenant. 
Rouse, Oliver, Captain. 

Satterlee, William. Major. 
Shepard, William, Colonel. 
Smith, Simeon, Captain. 
Story, John, Captain. 

Taylor, Othniel, Captain. 
Thomas, John, Regiment Surgeon. 
I Tliompson, Thaddeus, Surgeon. 



The following names are given as those of " members who joined 
the Society in other States and now reside in this " : — - 

Henry Dearborn, Colonel. 
Joseph Clark, Lieutenant. 
Andrew Craigie, Apothecary. 

In the list of 1859 the name of Timothy Pickering is added. 

* Printed " George Read " in Drake's list. Reab appears to be the correct 
name ; it is so written in the Journal and in all the early lists. In the official 
" List of the Commissioned and Staff Officers of the Massachusetts Line " it is 
written Rcabb. 

NAMES ON AUTOGRAPH LIST, BUT NOT ON PRINTED 
LIST OF 1S12. 



Pray, John. Captain. 
Price, William, Lieutenant. 
Roberts, Rich.ird B., Captain. 
Torrey, William, Lieutenant, f 



Blodget, Caleb, Lieutenant. 
Dolliver, Peter, Captain. 
Donnell, Nathaniel, Captain.* 
Fernald, Tobias, Lieut. -Colonel. 
Homans, John, Surgeon 

* Contributed his month's pay to the New Jersey Society in 17S4. His grand- 
son William Lester Donnell is now a memher of that Society. 

t Omitted because transferred to the New Voik Society. He contributed 
his montli's pay. 



542 



APPENDIX. 



OFFICERS 



[assatljusctfa ^ocirf^ of iljf Cincinnaii, 



PRESIDENTS. 

{:kcted. 

Benjamin Lincoln 1783 

John Brooks 1810 

David Townsend 1825 

JUDAH Alden 1829 

James Sever 1845 

Henry Burbeck 1846 

Robert Gould Shaw 1849 

Charles Stewart Daveis 1853 

Alfred Louis Baury 1865 

James Warren Sever 1866 

Henry Knox Thatcher 1871 

Samuel Crocker Cobb 1880 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Henry Knox . 
John Paterson 
William Eustis 
David Cobb . 
William Tudor 
William Eustis 
David Townsend 
Judah Alden . 
Francis Green 
Daniel Jackson 
John Hart 
Benjamin Pierce 



Elected. 
I7S3 
1785 
1786 
1810 



1820 
182I 
1825 
1829 
1832 
1834 
1836 



James Sever . . 
Henry Sewall 
Joseph Prescott 
James Lovell 
Charles Stewart Dave 
Alfred Louis Baury 
James Warren Sever 
Winslow Warren . 
Henry Knox Thatcher 
Samuel Crocker Cobb 
Charles Dudley Homans 
Winslow Warren . 



Elected. 

1839 
184s 

1846 
IS49 
1851 
1853 
1865 
1866 
1870 
I87I 
1880 
I8S7 





APPENDIX. 


543 




TREASURERS. 






Elected. 


Elected. 


Henry Jackson . . . 


• 1783 


David S Townsend 


. . 1845 


John Winslow . . . 


. 1809 


William Perkins . . 


. . 1847 


Robert Williams . . 


. I81I 


Winslow Warren . . 


. . 1878 


Robert Gould Shaw . 


. 1836 


Gamaliel Bradford 


. . 1S87 


Samuel Perkins . . 


. i84[ 







ASSISTANT TREASURERS. 



Benjamin Heywood 
John Winslow . 
Adams Bailey . 
Robert Gould Shaw 
Samuel Perkins 
David S Townsend 



17S3 
1794 
1809 
1825 

183s 
1841 



John Pickering . 
John Bryant . . 
Henry A. Peirce 
Gamaliel Bradford 
WiUiam F. Jones . 



1845 
1846 
1865 
1877 



SECRETARIES. 



John Brooks 
Thomas Edwards 
David Townsend 
John Callender . 
Thomas Jackson 
Adams Bailey . 



'783 
1786 
1807 
1821 
1834 
1 85 1 



James Warren Sever . 
Samuel Crocker Cobb 
Charles Dudley Homans 
Francis Winthrop Palfrey 
David G. Haskins, Jr. 



1859 
1865 
1871 
1880 
1890 



ASSISTANT SECRETARIES. 



Joseph Crocker .... 


1794 


Samuel Armstrong . . 


1798 


John Callender .... 


1806 


Adams Bailey .... 


1808 


John Callender .... 


1809 


Thomas Jackson . . . 


1821 


Adams Bailey .... 


1S34 



James Warren Sever . 
BenJ. Henderson Greene 
Leonard Crocker Bowles 
Winslow Warren . . 
David G. Haskins, Jr. 
John Homans, 2d . . 



1851 
1859 
1863 
1873 
1878 
1890 



544 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 

PASSED MARCH I3, 1S06. 

Cnmmontocaltlj of Ptassadjusctts. 

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIX. 

An All to incorporate Benjamin Lincoln and others into a Society by the name 
0/ The Society oj the Cincinnati within the State 0/ Massachusetts. 

W/iereas, Upon the dissolution of the American Revolutionary Army, 
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eiyhty-three, 
Benjamin Lincoln and others, officers in the Massachusetts line of said 
army, did associate for the purpose of forming a fund to be forever there- 
after appropriated for the relief of the indigent members of said associa- 
tion, and the widows and orphans of said members ; and in order to se- 
cure the said fund, and fulfil the charitable designs of the said institution, 
have petitioned to be incorporated, — 

Sect. i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the 
said Benjamin Lincoln and his associates, together with such others as 
may be admitted members of said association, be, and they hereby are, 
incorporated into a society by the name of The Massachusetts 
Society of the Cincinnati, with power to have a common seal; to 
make contracts relative to the objects of the said charitable fund ; to sue 
and to be sued ; to establish by-laws and orders for the regulation of 
said society and the preservation and application of the funds thereof, 
provided the same be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this 
Commonwealth ; and to take, hold, and possess any estate, real or per- 
sonal, by subscription, gift, grant, purchase, devise, or otherwise ; and 
the same to improve, lease, exchange, or sell, and convey for the sole 
benefit of said institution, provided the value of the real estate of said 
society shall never exceed twenty thousand dollars, and the annual income 
of the whole estate of said society shall not exxeed five thousand dollars. 

Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, that the said society shall meet in 
Boston, on the fourth day of July, annu.ally (unless the same should fall 
upon a Sunday, in which case the annual meeting shall always be holden 
on the day succeeding), for the purpose of electing by ballot from their 
members a president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, and such 
other officers as may be necessary to manage their concerns, all which 
officers shall hold their said offices for one year, and until others shall be 



APPENDIX. 545 

elected to succeed them ; and tlie officers for the time being shall publish 
a notification of the time and place of each annual meeting in at least two 
newspapers, at least fourteen days before holding the same. Upon any 
urgent occasion, the president or vice-president, or in their absence the 
secretary, may appoint a special meeting of said society to be notified in 
the same manner as annual meetings. 

Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, that the president, vice-president, and 
other officers of said society, chosen on the fourth day of July last, shall 
have the same authority to manage the concerns thereof as is hereby 
vested in like officers to be hereafter annually chosen ; provided, never- 
theless, that this act of incorporation shall be determinable at the pleasure 
of the legislature. 



35 



546 



BY-LAWS AND RULES 



MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 



Originally adopted July 4, 181 1, and amended at the annual meetings 
o/"i848, 1859, 1872, 1877, 1878, 1890. 



I. The officers of the Society shall consist of a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, Treasurer, and an Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, 
each of whom shall in virtue of his office be a member of the Standing 
Committee of the year. 

II. There shall be annually elected on the 4th of July a committee 
consisting of twelve, in addition to the officers of the Society, whose duty 
it shall be to take care of the general concerns of the corporation as well 
as of all matters specially committed to them by the Society. They shall 
from the funds afford such relief to the members, or to their widows and 
orphans, as in their judgment shall become proper objects thereof, in 
such sums and at such times as they shall think best, taking care that 
the interest only of the general stock of the Society be appropriated for 
this purpose, and for that of defraying the necessary expenses of the So- 
ciety. They shall pay a special attention to the state of the treasury, 
and shall see that the Treasurer give bond for the faithful discharge of 
his duty; they shall, from time to time, audit his accounts, direct him in 
the exchange or p'jrchase of stock, and in whatever the interest and se- 
curity of the corporation may from time to time require. They shall keep 
a record of their proceedings, which shall be subject to the inspection of 
any member, and at the annual meeting shall be laid before the Society 
and read. 

III. The votes ior the election of the officers of the Society, and for 
the admission of members, shall always be by ballot or written vote, 

IV. Five members of the Standing Committee shall be considered as 
a quorum for transacting the ordinary business ; but no appropriation of 
money shall be made unless seven members be present. 

V. Every original candidate who shall be voted in shall, at the time 
of his admission, pay such a sum in aid of the funds as the Standing 
Committee shall adjudge to be reasonable 



APPENDIX. 547 

VI. Every person who may be desirous of becoming a member of the 
Society, and who shall come within the terms of the original general 
Institution, shall make his application to the Standing Committee in 
writing, who shall advise thereon and report their opinion to the Society; 
but no one shall be permitted to be a candidate under the age of twenty- 
one years. 

VII. Each person who shall be admitted a member in right of succes- 
sion to a deceased member, or who shall become a member by virtue 
of any rule now existing or which may hereafter be established, shall 
make and subscribe the following declaration, in presence of the Society : 
provided, however, that m case the person so admitted is in active ser- 
vice in the army or navy of the United States, and is unable to attend 
the regular meeting of the Society next following his admission, he may 
make and subscribe the declaration before a notary-pubhc or justice of 
the peace, and transmit the same to the Secretary to be afifixed to the 
record book of the Society . — 

I, , having been admitted a member of the Society of Cin- 
cinnati within the State of Massachusetts, as the true successor of 

, late a menibei' of this Society, and my deceased (father or brother, 

as the case may be), do solemnly promise and engage that I will duly 
conform to all the regulations established from time to time for the gov- 
ernment of said Society, as far as they shall have for their basis the 
principles of the original Institution. In testimony whereof, I hereto 
subscribe my name and pledge my sacred honor. 

VIII. New members who shall be admitted on the claim of succession 
shall have a diploma or certificate, signed by the President and counter- 
signed by the Secretary, of the form following, viz. : — 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

Be it known that , as the true successor of , de- 
ceased, is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati ; instituted by the 
officers of the American army at the period of its dissolution, as well to 
commemorate the great event which gave independence to the United 
States of America, as for the laudable purpose of inculcating the duty of 
laying down in peace arms assumed for public defence, and of uniting 
in acts of brotherly affection and bonds of perpetual friendship the 
members constituting the same. 

In testimony whereof, the seal of the State Society of the 
Cincinnati of Massachusetts is hereunto afifixed. and the 

hand of the President, the day of , in the year 

of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and . 

By order , Prcside}it. 

, Secretary. 



54S APPENDIX. 

IX. Any person making application to become a member of the Soci- 
ety in conformity with the Rule recommended at the Triennial Meeting 
of the General Society of the Cincinnati, held at Baltimore in May, 1S54, 
and adopted by this Society at their annual meeting in July following, 
may be admitted upon subscribing the usual declaration, and upon condi- 
tion of the payment of the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) to the 
Treasurer of the Society as a contribution to the permanent fund, and 
shall thereby be entitled to all the rights and privileges of an original 
member. 

X. The succession and admission to membership of this Society shall 
descend to the heir male unless for satisfactory reasons another be cho- 
sen, in which case the membership shall extend to the life only of the 
person so elected ; and at his decease the then existing heir male of the 
original member shall be the person first to be considered on a new 
election. 

XI. A failure on the part of any eligible person to apply for admission 
within a reasonable time after being informed of the existence of his 
claim may be interpreted as a waiver tiiereof. 

XII. Since a waiver can in any case be regarded only as the renun- 
ciation of a claim, not as the transfer of a right, nont can be recognized 
which would impair the subsequent eligibility of a minor. 

XIII. Priority of claim through descendants through a female line is 
to be construed according to the same rules which govern priority in the 
male line ; namely, those of primogeniture according to the common law, 
so far as applicable. 

XIV. A Committee of Finance, to consist of three members, shall be 
elected by ballot annually. It shall be the duty of this Committee to 
advise the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer in regard to the investment 
of all funds belonging to this Society ; and no investment, or change of 
investment, shall be made without the concurrence of this Committee. 
The Committee of Finance shall also further audit the accounts of the 
Treasurer before each annual meeting. 



549 



OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY. 



PR ES ID EN TS-GENERAL. 

1783. George Washington of Virginia. 
1800. Alexander Hamilton of New York. 

1805. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. 

1825. Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina. 

1829. Aaron Ogden of New Jersey. 

1839. Morgan Lewis of New York. 

1844. William Popham of New York. 

1848. Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn of Massachusetts. 

1854. Hamilton Fish of New York. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS-GENERAL. 

1784. Horatio Gates of Virginia. 
1787. Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania. 

1799. Alexander Hamilton of New York. 

1800. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. 
1805. Henry Knox of Massachusetts. 

181 1. John Brooks of Massachusetts. 

1825. Aaron Ogden of New Jersey. 

1829. Morgan Lewis of New York. 

1839. William Shute of New Jersey. 

1844. Horace Bmney of Pennsylvania 

1S48. Hamilton Fish of New York. 

1854. Charles Stewart Daveis of Massachusetts. 

1866. James W^arren Sever of Massachusetts. 

1872. James Simons of South Carolina. 

1881. William Armstrong Irvine, M.D. of Pennsylvania. 

1887. Robert Milligan .McLane of Maryland. 

SEC RE TARIES-GENERAL. 

1783. Henry Knox of Massachusetts. 

1799. Wilham Jackson of Pennsylvania. 

1829. Alexander W. Johnston of Pennsylvania. 

1857. Thomas McEuen of Pennsylvania. 

1875. George Washington Harris of Pennsylvania (formerly of 

Maryland). 

1884. Asa Bird Gardiner of Rhode Island 



550 



ASSISTAKT-SECRETARIES-CENERAL, 



17S4. Otho Holland Williams of Maryland. 

1787. George Turner of South Carolina. 

1790. William McPherson of Pennsylvania. 

1799. Nathan Dorsey of Pennsylvania. 

1802. William Dent Beall of Maryland. 

1825. John Markland of Pennsylvania. 

1829. Thomas McEuen of Pennsylvania. 

1857. George Washington Harris of Pennsylvania (formerly of 

Maryland). 
1875. ■ Richard Irving Manning of Maryland (formerly of South 

Carolina). 
1890. Thomas Pinckney Lowndes of South Carolina. 

TREASURERS-GENERAL. 

1783. Alexander McDougall of New York. 

1796. William Jackson of Pennsylvania. 

1799. William McPherson of Pennsylvania. 

1825. Allan McLane of Pennsylvania (formerly of Delaware). 

1832. John Markland of Pennsylvania. 

1838. Joseph Warren Scott of New Jersey. 

1873. Tench Tilghman of Maryland. 

1875. Alexander Hamilton, Jr., of New York. 

1881. John Schuyler of New York. 

ASSrSTANT-TREASURERS-GENERAL. 

1825. Alexander W. Johnston of Pennsylvania. 

1829. John Markland of Pennsylvania. 

1832. John Warren Scott of New Jersey. 

1838. William Jackson of Pennsylvania. 

1857. John H. Markland of Pennsylvania. 

1863. John ]\IcDowell of New Jersey. 

1872. William Berrien Dayton of New Jersey. 

i88r. Herman Burgin, M.D., of New Jersey. 



551 



RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE GENERAL 
SOCIETY. 

1st. When the General Society shall assemble for business, the mem- 
bers shall come to order by taking their seats ; and no one shall leave 
the room until the meeting is adjourned — without permission from the 
President-General or Chairman. 

2d. At every General Meeting, after the credentials of the respective 
members shall have been read, the Secretary-General shall read the 
" rules and regulations for conducting the business of the General-Meet- 
ing," previous to any other business.* 

The order of business shall be to read the Journals, if any, of the 
preceding day ; then the despatches; then the reports of Committees, and 
then the Order of the day ; which being completed, other matters may be 
entertained. 

3d. When in session members shall not speak to one another ; but 
rising, shall address themselves to the President-General or Chairman 
only. 

4th. All motions, except for adjourning the meeting from day to 
day, or for postponing the decision of a question, shall be made in 
writing. 

5th. No motion shall be debated, nor any question taken tliereon — 
unless the same be seconded. 

6th. All questions shall be decided by a majority of members present, 
unless the vote be taken as prescribed in the Ordinance of the 7th May, 
1851. t 

7th. All officers shall be appointed by ballot, unless a unanimous con- 
sent be given to a -diva voce vote. All special committees shall be 
appointed by ballot, unless a majority determine otherwise. 

* At the Triennial meeting of the General Society held in Philadelphia on 
the 5th May, iS:;g, it was resolved " that such State Societies and officers of the 
General Society as convene in general meetings, shall be competent to transact 
business." By a resolve of the 14th May, 1787, the General .Society required a 
representation from seven State Societies in order to constitute a quorum for 
business. The dissolution, however, of several of the State Societies made it 
necessary to modify this regulation. 

t The ordinance adopted in 1851 provides that each representation present 
from a State Societ}' shall be entitled to cast five votes; and each of the officers 
of the General Society who shall be present shall be entitled to cast one vote ; 
and the majority of all the votes thus cast shall be necessary to an election. 



552 APPENDIX. 

8th. Upon a motion for adjournment, from day to day, the question 
shall be put, without debate, and shall take the place of all other 
questions. 

9th. No member shall speak more than once, until every otlier mem- 
ber who chooses shall have spoken to the sime question ; nor shall any 
member speak oftener than twice in any case, unless for explanation, and 
then without argument. 

loth. No member shall interrupt another while speaking, unless he 
call him to order. 

nth. All motions in writing shall be open to amendment previously to 
putting the main question, and motions for postponing the whole or any 
part of a question shall be first in order. 

i2th. Questions of order shall be determined by the President-General 
or Chairman without debate ; but an appeal may be taken to the meeting, 
in which case they shall immediately decide, after permitting every mem- 
ber who chooses to speak once. 

13th. In cases to which the preceding rules do not apply, the President- 
General or Chairman shall conduct the proceedings according to his best 
discretion. 

14th. At every meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, the 
"principles embodied in the Original Institution of the Society shall be 
read as a part of the regular proceedings." 



APPENDIX. 553 



MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ORDER OF THE 
CINCINNATI IN FRANCE. 

[Taken from Baron de Girardot's pamphlet, printed at Nantes, n. d.] 

S E. Le Chevalier de la Luzerne, Ministre Plenipotentiaire. 
S. E Le Seigneur Ge'rard, dernier Ministre Plenipotentiaire. 

Amiraiix el Commandants de la Marine. 

L. E. Le Comte d'Estaing. 
L. E. Le Comte de Grasse. 
L. E. Le Cointe de Barras. 
L. E. Le Chevalier Destouches. 

Marirhatix de Camp 

Le Comte de Rochambeau, Lieutenant-General Commandant. 

Le Baron de Viom^nil, Lieutenant-General. 

Le Chevalier de Chastellux. 

Le Comte de Viom^nil. 

Le Comte de Saint-Simon. 

De Choisy. 

De Beville. 

Brigadiers en AnUriipie. 

[Faits marechaux de camp a leur retoitr en France.] 

Le Comte de Custines. 

Le Due de Lauzun. 

Le Due de Laval. 

Le Comte d'Autichamps. 

Le .Marquis de Rostaing. 

Desaudroiiines. 

D'Aboville. 

La Vallette.* 

Tous servi en Anu'riqne avec le Grade de Colonel. 
Marquis de Saint-Maime. 
Comte Chretien des Deux Fonts. 

' The three last named were not jnade Field Marshals on their return to France. 1 



554 APPENDIX. 

Comte de Poudens. 

Vicomte d'Arrot. 

Vicomte de Rochambeau. 

Comte Guillaume des Deux Fonts. 

Vicomte de Noailks. 

Comte de Cliarlus. 

Comte Flechin. 

Robert Dillon. 

Ouerenet de la Combe des Ingenieurs. 

Comte de S^gur. 

Comte de Fersen. 

Prince de Broglie. 

Scheldon. 

Comte de Damas. 

Comte de Vauban. 

Marquis de Champcenets. 

Lisie des Officers dans le Cas d'etre proposls four etre admis dans V Association des 
Cincinnatus d'apris le R'eglcment de la Societe Generale du 15 Mai, 1784. 

Le Baron de I'Estrade. 

Le Chevalier de Lameth. 

M. de Tarl^. 

M. de Menouville. 

Le Baron de Saint-Simon. 

Le Clievalier de IMirabeau. 

M. de Montesquieu. 

Le Vicomte Dosmond. 

M. de Mac Mahon. 

Le Chevalier de Tarle. 

Le Comte de Loncenil. 

Le Comte de Chabannes. 

Le Baron d'Esebeck. 

M. d'Anselme. 

M. de Ricey. 

M. Lynch. 

Le Vicomte de Vaudreuil. 

Le Vicomte de Fleurv. 



Supf-limcnt de daix Officers du 15 Aoitst, \-]%\, proposie pour fOrdre Cincinnatus. 

Goulet de la Tour. 
Marquis de Montmort. 



APPENDIX. 555 

Cafilahis et Commandants de Vaisseaux. 

[Resolu, dans I'Assemblee generale de la Societe de Cincinnati; du Lundi, 17 Mai, 1784.] 

M. de Tarl^. 

Le Chevalier de Lameth (Colonel par brevet). 

Le Comte de Sonneville (recorded Sainneville). 

Le Comte de la Touche (recorded la Touche-Treville). 

Le Comte de Kergariou (recorded Kergariou Log Maria). 

Le Clievalier de I'Egiiille. 

Le Chevalier du Quesne. 

Le Comte de Trevalais (recorded de la Prevalaye). 

Le Chevalier Maulevrier. 

Le Chevalier de Vallongne (recorded Vallongue). 

Le Comte de Capellis. 

Le Chevalier de la P^rouse. 

In addition to the foregoing, Lieut.-Col. de Bouchet was admitted 
by the General Society, 17 May, 1784. 

Le Marquis de Bouill^ was admitted 17 May, 1787. 



INDEX. 



INDEX. 



ABBOT, George, descendants of, 
77- 

Abbot, Capt. Stephen, biographical no- 
tice, 77. 

Abbott, Ensign Josiah, biographical 
notice, 78. 

Adams, Henry, descendants of, 79. 

Adams, Surgeon Henry, biographical 
notice, 78. 

Adams, John, opposed to the Society, 

17- 

Adams, Samuel, opposed to the Society, 
17. 

Admission of members, action of the 
General Society concerning, 23-26 ; 
rules of State Societies, 26; action of 
the Mass. Society, 48, 49, 60, 63, 66, 
73, 74 ; rules relating to, 546. 

Alden, Amherst A., biographical no- 
tice, 80. 

Alden, Hon. John, descendants of, 79. 

Alden, Capt. Judah, biographical no- 
tice, 79 ; chosen president of the 
Mass. Society, 59 ; resolutions on the 
death of, 60. 

Alden, Samuel, biographical notice, So. 

Allen, Joseph, descendants of. Si. 

Allen, Capt. Nathaniel Coit, biograph- 
ical notice, 81. 

Allen, Major Noah, biographical notice, 
Si. 

Ames, Lieut. Jotham, biographical no- 
tice, 81. 

Ames, William, descendants of, 82. 

Andrews, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 82. 

Armstrong, Major John, author of 
" Newburgh Addresses," 5. 



Armstrong, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 82. 

Armstrong, Samuel (son), biographical 
notice of, 83. 

Arnold, Leonard, biographical notice, 
203. 

Arnold, Samuel Frost, biographical 
notice, 202. 

Ashley, Major Moses, biographical no- 
tice, S3 

Austin, Lieut. John, biographical no- 
tice, S3. 

Austin, Richard, descendants of, S;^. 

Austin, Thomas, biographical notice, 
84. 

Autograph list of original members, 
536. 



BAILEY, Capt. Adams, biograph- 
ical notice, 84. 

Bailey, Adams (son), biographical no- 
tice, 85 ; tribute to the memory of, 
64. 

Bailey, Adams (grandson), biograph- 
ical notice, 85. 

Bailey, Bernard Calvin, biographical 
notice, 87. 

Bailey, Calvin, biographical notice, 87. 

Bailey, Capt. Luther, biographical no- 
tice, 86. 

Bailey, Samuel Donnell, biographical 
notice, 88. 

Bailey, Thomas, descendants of. 84, 87. 

Bailey, Walter Lang, biographical no- 
tice, S6. 

Balcom, Lieut. Joseph, biographical no- 
tice, 88. 



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Baldwin, Henry, descendants of, 89. 

Baldwin, Col. Jeduthan, biographical 
notice, 89. 

Baldwin, Luke, biographical notice, 89. 

Ballantine, Dr. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, Sg. 

Ballard, Rev. Edward, D.D., biograph- 
ical notice, 90. 

Ballard, John Osgood, biographical no- 
tice, 90. 

Ballard, Major William Hudson, bio- 
graphical notice, 89. 

Bancroft, Lieut. James, biographical 
notice, 90. 

Bancroft, James (son), biographical no- 
tice, 91. 

Barlow, Joel (Chaplain), biographical 
notice, 91. 

Barlow, John, of Fairfield, Ct., 91. 

Bass, John, descendants of, 82. 

Bassett, Lt -Col. Barachiah, biograph- 
ical notice, 94. 

Bassett, Col. William, descendants of, 

94- 

Bates, Capt. Joseph, election of, xlii. 

Bates, Hon. William G., his estimate 
of Col. William Shepard, 44S. 

Eaury, Rev. Alfred Louis, D.D., bio- 
graphical notice, 97 ; chosen Presi- 
dent of the Mass. Society, 65 ; reso- 
lutions on the death of, 65. 

Baury, Lieut. Frederic, biographical 
notice, 97. 

Baury, Lieut. Frederic Francis, bio- 
graphical notice, 99. 

Baury de Bellerive, Capt. Louis, bio- 
graphical notice, 94. 

Baylies, Edmund, biographical notice, 
102. 

Baylies, Edmund Lincoln, biographical 
notice, 102 

Baylies, Lt.-Col Hodijah, biographical 
notice, too. 

Baylies, Thomas, descendants of, 102. 

Bell, Charles Upham, biographical no- 
tice, 145 

Bellerive. Siv Baury. 

Benson, Capt. Joshua, biographical no- 
tice, 103 

Binney, Dr. Barnabas, referred to, 46, 
"03 



Binney, Horace, LL.D., biographical 
notice, 103 ; admission at the age of 
si.xteen, 46. 

Binney, Horace, Jr., referred to, 104. 

Blake, Lieut. Edward, biographical no- 
tice, 104. 

Blake, Robert, biographical notice, 104. 

Blanchard, Capt. John, biographical 
notice, 104. 

Blodget, Lieut. Caleb, biographical no- 
tice, 104. 

Bowles, John, descendants of, 105. 

Bowles, Leonard Crocker, biographical 
notice, 106. 

Bowles, L. Q. C, biographical notice, 
106. 

Bowles, Lieut. Ralph Hart, biograph- 
ical notice, 104. 

Bowles, Dr. Stephen Wallace, bio- 
graphical notice, 106. 

Bowman, Nathaniel, descendants of, 
107. 

Bowman, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 107. 

Bradford, Alden, LL.D., biographical 
notice, no. 

Bradford, Lieut. Andrew, biographical 
notice, 107, 

Bradford, Col. Gamaliel, biographical 
notice, 109. 

Bradford, Lieut. Gamaliel, biographical 
notice, 112. 

Bradford, Dr. Gamaliel, biographical 
notice, 113. 

Bradford, Gamaliel, biographical no- 
tice, 114; chosen Treasurer of the 
Mass. Society, 71, 72. 

Bradford, Laurence, biographical no- 
tice, III. 

Bradford, Capt. Robert, biographical 
notice, 114. 

Bradford, Capt. Robert Forbes, bio- 
graphical notice, loS. 

Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel, biograph- 
ical notice, 1 1 1. 

Bradford, Gov. William, descendants 
of, 112. 

Bramhall, Lieut. Joshua, biographical 
notice, 115. 

Brooks, Alexander Scammell, biograph- 
ical notice, 120. 



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Brooks, Lieut.-Col. John, biographical 
notice, 1 15-120 ; first Secretary of the 
Mass. Society, 37 ; chosen President 
of the Mass. Society, 53; address to 
La Fayette, 56, 57 ; resolutions on 
the death of, 58. 

Brown, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 121. 

Brown, Frederick W. S. A., biograph- 
ical notice, 122. 

Brown, John, descendants of, 122. 

Brown, Capt. -Lieut. Oliver, biographi- 
cal notice, 122. 

Bryan, William, descendants of, 353. 

Bryant, Dr. Henry, biographical no- 
tice, 3153. 

Bryant, John, biographical notice, 352. 

Bryant, Dr. John, biographical notice, 

354- 

Bugbee, Lieut. Edward, biographical 
notice, 122. 

Bugby, Edward, descendants of, 122. 

BuUard, Lieut. Asa, biographical no- 
tice, 123. 

Bullard, Benjamin, descendants of, 123. 

Bullard, James, biographical notice, 123. 

Bullock, Frederick Prescott, biograph- 
ical notice, 403. 

" Bunch of Grapes " Tavern, meetings 
of the Society at, 38. 

Burbeck, Capt. Henry, biographical 
notice, 124; chosen president of the 
Mass. Society, 60 ; last of the original 
members who held that ofiice, 61. 

Burbeck, William Henry, biographical 
notice, 127 

Burke, ^danus, issues a pamphlet 
against the Society, 15, 16. 

Burnam, Major John, biographical no- 
tice, 127. 

Burnet, Lieut. Robert, Jr. (of New 
York), last survivor of the original 
members in this country, 27 note- 

Burnham, Deacon John descendants of, 
128. 

Burnham, John W., elected a member, 
xlii. 

Bussey, Capt.-Lieut. Isaiah, biograph- 
ical notice, 129. 

By-laws and rules of the Mass. Society, 
546. 



CALLENDER, Eliezer, descend- 
ants of, 130. 

Callender, Capt.-Lieut. John, biograph- 
ical notice, 129. 

Callender, John (nephew), biographical 
notice, 130. 

Carleton, Lieut. Moses, biographical 
notice, 130. 

Carleton, Lieut. Osgood, biographical 
notice, 130. 

Casey, Gen. Silas, biographical notice, 
212. 

Casey, Thomas, descendants of, 215. 

Casey, Gen. Thomas L., biographical 
notice, 216. 

Castaing, Lieut. Peter, biographical 
notice, 131. 

Chambers, Capt. Matthew, biograph- 
ical notice, 131. 

Chapin, Deacon Samuel, descendants 

• of, 131. 

Chapin, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 131. 

Charter of the Mass. Society, 544. 

Chase, Francis, biographical notice, 78. 

Chase, Stephen Abbot, biographical 
notice, 78. 

Chase, William, biographical notice, 
78. 

Clap, Capt. Caleb, biographical notice, 
132- 

Clap, Lieut. Joshua, biographical no- 
tice, 133. 

Clapp, Charles Barnard, biographical 
notice, 135. 

Clapp, Joel, D-D , biographical no- 
tice, 134. 

Clark, Capt. Joseph, biographical no- 
tice, 135^ 

Clark, Joseph Hill, biographical no- 
tice, 135. 

Clarke, Samuel C, biographical no- 
tice, 270. 

Clarke, Thomas, descendants of, 270. 

Clayes, Rev. Dana, biographical no- 
tice, 136. 

Clayes, John, descendants of, 136. 

Clayes, Capt. Peter, biographical no- 
tice, 136. 

Cobb, Austin or Augustine, descend- 
ants of, 140. 



36 



562 



Cobb, Lt.-Col. David, biographical no- 
tice, 136. 

Cobb, Hon. Samuel Crocker, biograph- 
ical notice, 141 ; remarks at the cen- 
tennial celebration in New York in 
1S89, 33, ^2 ': elected President of the 
Mass. Society, 67 ; address at the anni- 
versary celebration in Boston in 1S83, 
68, 69 ; remarks at the annual meet- 
ings in 18S9 and 1S90, 72 ; remarks on 
the death of Rear-Admiral Thatcher, 
319; remarks on the death of Wil- 
liam Perkins, 38S. 

Cogswell, Capt. Amos, biographical 
notice, 146. 

Cogswell, John, descendants of, 
144. 

Cogswell, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 147. 

Cogswell, Major Thomas, biographical 
notice, 144. 

Concert Hall, meetings of the Society 
at, 38 

Condy, Lieut. Thos. Hollis, biograph- 
ical notice, 147. 

Connecticut Society, notice of, 29. 

Cook, Capt. Lavid, biographical no- 
tice, 147. 

Cook, Horatio Gates, biographical no- 
tice, 147. 

Cooper, Capt. Ezekiel, biographical 
notice, 147. 

Cooper, Kear-Admiral George Henry, 
biographical notice, 148. 

Cooper, Adj. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 148. 

Cooper, Gen. Samuel (son), notice of, 
148. 

Craigie, Gen. Andrew, biographical 
notice, 149. 

Crane, Henry, descendants of, 152. 

Crane, Col. John, biographical nutice, 
150. 

Crane, Dr. John, biographical notice, 
152. 

Crane, John Huntington, biographical 
notice, 152. 

Crocker, Capt. Joseph, biographical 
notice, 153 

Crocker, Lewis Cass, biographical no- 
tice, 154. 



Crocker, Samuel Mather (son of Capt. 

Joseph), biographical notice, 153. 
Crocker, Samuel Mather (grandson), 

biographical notice, 153. 
Crocker, William, descendants of, 

153- 
Crowley, Lieut. Florence, biographical 

notice, 154. 
Cumins, Oliver, descendants of, 234. 
Cummings, Prentiss, biographical no- 
tice, 234. 
Gushing, Matthew, descendants of, 155. 
Gushing, Capt. Nathaniel, biographical 

notice, 155. 
Gushing, Lieut. Thomas, biographical 

notice, 156. 



DANA, Lieut. Benjamin, biograph- 
ical notice, 156. 

Dana, Benjamin (nephew), biograph- 
ical notice, 157. 

Dana, Benjamin (grand-nephew), elec- 
tion of, 157. 

Dana, Isaac, biographical notice, 157. 

Dana, Richard, descendants of, 156. 

Danforth, Lieut. Joshua, biographical 
notice, 157. 

Danforth, Rev. Joshua Noble, bio- 
graphical notice, 15S. 

Daniels, Capt. Japheth, biographical 
notice, 159. 

Darby, Major Samuel, biographical 
notice, 159. 

Daveis, Hon. Charles Stewart, bio- 
graphical notice, 163 ; chosen Presi- 
dent of the Mass. Society, 63 ; reso- 
lutions on the death of, 65. 

Daveis, Dr. John Taylor Gilnian, bio- 
graphical notice, 172. 

Davis, Rear-Admiral Charles Henry, 
biographical notice, 192. 

Davis, Commander Charles Henry 
(son), biographical notice, 201. 

Davis, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 159. 

Davis, Lieut. James, biogrnphical no- 
tice, 173. 

Davis, Lieut. John, biographical no- 
tice, 174. 

Davis, Robert, descendants of, 200. 



56: 



Davis, William (father of Lieut, Eben- 

ezer), 162. 
Davis, William P., biographical notice, 

174- 
Day, Luke and Elijah, declaration of 
Standing Committee concerning, 42, 

534- 

Dean, Capt. Walter, biographical no- 
tice, 174. 

Dearborn, Godfrey, descendants of, 

175- 

Dearborn, Col. Henry, biographical 
notice, 174 ; his command in Upper 
Canada, 265. 

Dearborn, Henry A. S., biographical 
notice, 176 

Delaware Society, notice of, 30. 

Dix, Capt. Nathan, biographical no- 
tice, 177. 

Dodge, Lieut. Levi, biographical no- 
tice, 177. 

Doland, John J , biographical notice, 
178. 

DoUiver, Capt. Peter, biographical no- 
tice, 178. 

Donnell, Capt. Nathaniel, 541 note. 

Drew, Clement, biographical notice, 
180. 

Drew, George Henry, biographical no- 
tice, 180. 

Drew, John, descendants of, 17S. 

Drew, Major Seth, biographical no- 
tice, 178. 

Drew, Seth (son), biographical notice, 
179. 

Duffield, Dr. John, date of commission, 
iSo. 



EATON, Lieut. Benjamin, biograph- 
ical notice, iSi. 

Eaton, Charles Marvin, biographical 
notice, 181. 

Eaton, William L., election of, xlii. 

Edwards, Charles, biographical notice, 
1S3. 

Edwards, John (1670), descendants of, 
1S2. 

Edwards, John (1802), biosrraphical no- 
tice, 182. 



Edwards, Lieut. Thomas, biographical 
notice, 181. 

Egleston, Lieut. Azariah, biographical 
notice, 1S3. 

Emerson, Henry, biographical notice, 
184. 

Emerson, Michael, descendants of, 1S4. 

Emerson, Nathaniel W., biographical 
notice, 1S4. 

Emerson, Capt. Nehemiah, biograph- 
ical notice, 184. 

Emery, Capt. Ephraim, biographical 
notice, 185. 

Eustis, Gen. Abraham, election of, xlii. 

Eustis, William, descendants of, 186. 

Eustis, Gov. William, biographical no- 
tice, 185 ; elected Vice-President of 
the Mass. Society, 38 ; statement in 
relation to the origin of the Cincinnati 
Society, 3, 531 ; address to President 
Washington, 44. 

Eustis, William (grand-nephew), bio- 
graphical notice, 1S7. 

Everett, Lieut. Pelatiah, biographical 
notice, 187. 

Exchange Coffee House, meetings of 
Society at, 38. 

Eysandeau, Lieut. William, army rec- 
ord, 188. 



F'ELT, Capt. Jonathan, biograph- 
ical notice, 188. 

Felt, Oliver, biographical notice, 188. 

Fernald, Renald, descendants of, 189. 

Fernald, Lieut -Col. Tobias, biograph- 
ical notice, 1S9. 

Finley, Dr. James E. B., notice of, 
1 89. 

Finley. Dr. Samuel, notice of, 190. 

Fisk, David, descendants of, 190. 

Fisk, Dr. Joseph, biographical notice, 
190. 

Fiske, Dr. Joseph (son), biographical 
notice, 190. 

Floyd, Ensign Ebenezer, notice of, 
191. 

Foster, Andrew, biographical notice, 
150. 

Foster, Ensign Elisha, date of commis- 
sion, 191. 



564 



Foster, Lieut. Thomas, biographical 

■ notice, 191. 

Fowle, John (son of Capt. John), bio- 
graphical notice, 192. 

Fowles, Edmund, descendants of, 191. 

Fowles, Capt. John, biographical no- 
tice, 191. 

France, members of the Society in, 30, 

31. 553- 

Franklm, Benjamin, ridicules the .So- 
ciety, 17. 

Freeman, Capt.-Lieut. Constant, bio- 
graphical notice, 192. 

Freeman, Samuel, descendants of, 192. 

Freeman, Lieut. Thomas Davis,- bio- 
graphical notice, 201. 

Frink, Ensign Samuel, biographical 
notice, 201. 

Frost, Capt. Samuel, biographical no- 
tice, 202. 

Frost, Thomas, descendants of, 202. 

Frothingham, Capt. Benjamin, bio- 
graphical notice, 203. 

Frothingham, Benjamin (son), bio- 
graphical notice, 203. 

Frye, Ensign Frederick, biographical 
notice, 204. 

Fuller, Capt. John, biographical notice, 
204. 



GARDNER, Capt. James, bio- 
graphical notice, 204. 

Garrett, Lieut. Andrew, biographical 
notice, 205. 

Gates, Gen. Horatio, secret connivance 
with disaffected cfiScers, 5. 

General Society, first general meeting, 
20, 21 ; action on the admission of 
members, 23-26 ; anniversary celebra- 
tion, 31-33; officers elected in 1S90, 
34; officers since 17S3, 549. 

George, Capt.-Lieut. John, biograph- 
ical notice, 205. 

Georgia Society, notice of, 30. 

Gibbs, Alexander H., biographical no- 
tice, 207. 

Gibbs, Major Caleb, biographical no- 
tice, 207. 

Gilbert, Lieut. Benjamin, biographical 
notice, 207. 



Goodale, Dr. Lincoln, biographical no- 
tice, 211. 

Goodale, Capt. Nathan, biographical 
notice, 207. 

Goodale, Robert, descendants of, 210. 

Goodwin, Dr. Francis Le Baron, bio- 
graphical notice, 218. 

Gould, Capt. Benjamin, notice of, 
218. 

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, LL.D., bio. 
graphical notice, 21S; report on the 
admission of members, 73. 74. 

Gould, Zaccheus, descendants of, 223. 

Gouvion, Col., letter to Kno.\, 20. 

Greaton, Brig.-Gen. John, biographical 
notice, 223. 

Greaton, Ensign John W., biographical 
notice, 224. 

Greaton, Ensign Richard H., biograph- 
ical notice, 225. 

Green, Capt. Francis, biographical no- 
tice, 225. 

Green, Horace, LL.D., biographical 
notice, 226. 

Green, Dr. Samuel A., remarks on the 
death of Gen. Palfrey, 376. 

Greene, Benjamin Henderson, bio- 
graphical notice, 225. 

Greene, George Francis, biographical 
notice, 226. 

Greenleaf, Samuel, biographical notice, 
22S. 

Greenleaf, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 227. 

Gridley, Capt.-Lieut. John, notice of, 
22S.' 



HALL, George, biographic; notice, 
229. 

Hall, George W., biographical notice, 
230. 

Hall, Lieut. James, biographical no- 
tice, 228. 

Hall, James (grandson), biographical 
notice, 229. 

Hamlin, Ensign Africa, biographical 
notice, 230. 

Hamlin, Poladore, election of, xlii. 

Hancock, Capt. Belcher, biographical 
notice, 231. 



5^5 



Hancock, Henry Killam, biographical 

notice, 231. 
Hancock, Nathaniel, descendants of, 

231. 
Hand, Gen. Edward, on committee to 

revise the " Institution," 6. 
Hart, Dr. John, biographical notice, 

231- 
Hart, Dr. Samuel, biographical notice, 

233- 

Hartshorn, Capt. Thomas, biograph- 
ical notice, 234. 

Harvey, Capt. -Lieut. Elisha, biograph- 
ical notice, 235 ; grave of, marked, 

73- 

Haskell, Capt. Elnathan, biographical 
notice, 235. 

Haskell, Lieut. Jonathan, biographical 
notice, 236. 

Haskins, David Greene, Jr., biograph- 
ical notice, 172; chosen Assistant 
Secretary of the Mass. Society, 67 ; 
Secretary, 72. 

Hastings, Edmund T. (son), biographi- 
cal notice, 236. 

Hastings, Edmund T. (grandson), bio- 
graphical notice, 237. 

Hastings, Edmund T. (great-grandson), 
biographical notice, 237. 

Hastings, Capt. John, biographical 
notice, 236. 

Heath, William [1632], descendants of, 
240 

Heath, Gen. William, biographical no- 
tice, 237 ; appointed to distribute 
copies of the " Institution," 13 ; letter 
to Gen. Knox, renouncing the Institu- 
tion, 239. 

Heath, William Samuel, biographical 
notice, 241. 

Heywood, Capt. Benjamin, biographi- 
cal notice, 241 ; first Assistant Treas- 
urer of the Mass. Society, 37. 

Heywood, Dr. Benjamin F., biographi- 
cal notice, 242. 

Heywood, Deacon John, biographical 
notice, 242. 

Heywood, John Green, biographical 
notice, 243. 

Hildreth, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 243. 



Hill, Lieut. Jeremiah, biographical 

notice, 243. 
Hinds, Capt.Lieut. Bartlett, biographi- 
cal notice, 244. 
Hiwill, Lieut. John, biographical notice, 

244. 
Hobby, Capt. John, biographical notice, 

244. 
Hodge, James Thacher, biographical 

notice, 473. 
Hodge, John Russell, biographical 

notice, 474. 
Hodge, Michael, notice of, 474. 
Holbrook, Capt David, biographical 

notice, 244. 
Holbrook, Thomas, descendants of, 244. 
Holden, Capt. Aaron, biographical 

notice, 245. 
Holden, Capt. Abel, biographical 

notice, 345. 
Holden, Dr. Edgar, biographical notice, 

247. 
Holden, Lieut. John, biographical 

notice, 246. 
Holden, Lieut. Levi, biographical 

notice, 247. 
Holland, Charles Turner, biographical 

notice, 250. 
Holland, Lieut. Ivory, biographical 

notice, 248. 
Holland, John, descendants of, 248 
Holland, Lieut. Park, biographical 

notice, 24S. 
HoUister, Capt. Jesse, biographical 

notice, 250. 
Homans, Dr. Charles D., biographical 

notice, 253 ; chosen Vice-President 

of the Mass. Societ)', 67 ; resolutions 

on the death of, 71. 
Homans, Dr. John, biographical notice, 

250. 
Homans, Dr. John (son), biographical 

notice, 252. 
Homans, Dr. John (great-grandson), 

biographical notice, 254; elected 

Assistant-Secretary of the Mass. So- 
ciety, 73- 
Hooker, Lieut. Zibeon, biographical 

notice, 255. 
Hooker, Zibeon (son), biographical 

notice, 255. 



566 



Horton, Ensign Elisha, biographical 
notice, 256. 

Houdin, Capt. Micliael G., biographical 
notice, 256. 

Howe, Ensign Richard S., biographical 
notice, 256. 

Howe, Richard S. (nephew), biographi- 
cal notice, 256. 

Howe, Thomas (brother), biographical 
notice, 256. 

Howe, Thomas (nephew), biographical 
notice, 256. 

Hull, Lieut.-Col. William, biographical 
notice, 257. 

Hunt, Enoch, descendants of, 271. 

Hunt, Lieut. Ephraim, biographical 
notice, 270. 

Hunt, Gen. Henry J., biographical 
notice, 279. 

Hunt, John, descendants of, 27S. 

Hunt, Gen. Lewis Cass, biographical 
notice, 271. 

Hunt, Capt. Thomas, biographical no- 
tice, 275. 

Hurd, John, descendants of, 2S3. 

Hurd, Ensign John, Jr., biographical 
notice, 2S3. 

INGEKSOLL, Lieut George, bio- 
graphical notice, 2S3. 
Ingersoll, George G., D D., Iiiographi- 

cal notice, 2S3. 
" Institution," copy of, from the official 
record, 7-13; proposed modification 
of, 21 ; original copy, 535 note. 

JACKSON, Lieut. Alfred Baury, bio- 
graphical notice. 100. 
Jackson, Ensign Amasa, biographical 

notice, 284. 
Jackson, Arthur H., election of, xlii. 
Jackson, David, descendants of, 100. 
J.ackson, Ensign Charles, biographical 

notice, 2S4. 
Jackson, Charles E., biographical notice, 

2S4. 
Jackson, Lieut. Daniel, biographical 

notice, 2S5. 
Jackson, Daniel, biographical notice, 

2S6. 



Jackson, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 2S7. 

Jackson, Hon. Ebenezer (son), bio- 
graphical notice, 2S7. 

Jackson, Edward, descendants of, 284. 

Jackson, Edward (nephew of Col. 
Henry), biographical notice, 2S9. 

Jackson, Francis, biographical notice, 
2S6. 

Jackson, Col. Henry, biographical no- 
tice, 28S ; first Treasurer of the Mass. 
Society, 37; testimonial to. 52; reso- 
lutions on the death of, 52, 53: por- 
trait of, presented to the Society, 
54- 

Jackson, Col Michael, biographical 
notice, 29c. 

Jackson, Lieut Michael, Jr , biographi- 
cal notice, 292. 

Jackson, Capt. Simon, biographical 
notice, 292. 

Jackson, Ca])t. Thomas, biographical 
notice, 292 ; tribute to the memory of, 
62. 

Jackson, Thomas (son), biographical 
notice, 293. 

Jay, John, opposed to the Society, 17. 

Jefferds, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 293. 

Jefferson, Thomas, reference to Kno.x's 
wish for a badge, 3 ; assails the So- 
ciety, iG. 

Johnston, Capt John, biographical 
notice, 293. 

Jones, William Frederick, biographical 
notice, 362; chosen Assistant Treas- 
urer of the Mass. Society, 72. 



KEYES, Capt Alexander Brooks, 
biographical notice, 120. 
Killam, Capt. Joseph, biographical 

notice, 295. 
King, Philip, descendants of, 295 
King, Capt. Zebulon, biographical 

notice, 295. 
Kirkland, Rev. John T., LL.D., his 

notice of Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, 339. 
Kirkland, Rev. Samuel, notice of, 345. 
Knap, Major Moses, biographical 

notice, 295. 



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Knapp, Gilbert Clark, biographical 
notice, 296. 

Knapp, Hiram, biographical notice, 296. 

Knapp, Kev. Isaac, his estimate of Col. 
William Shepard, 441, 443. 

Kiiovvles, Capt. -Lieut. Charles, bio- 
graphical notice, 296. 

Kno.x.Gen. Henry, biographical notice, 
297 ; his " Rough Draft of a Society," 
4, 6: deserves title of Founder of the 
Cincinnati, 4 ; describes the public 
sentiment in New England in 17S4, 
ig; first Vice-President of the Mass. 
Society, 37 ; Chairman of the Com- 
mittee to prepare address to the 
Legislature, 40. 



LA FAYETTE, letter to Gen. 
Kno.\, 19, 20; reception of, and 
address, 56-5S ; letter to Robert Wil- 
liams and others, 520. 

Larned, Capt. Simon, biographical 
notice, 321. 

Laughton, Dr. William, biographical 
notice, 322 

Lawrence, Amos Adams, biographical 
notice, 322. 

Lawrence, Amory Appleton, biographi- 
cal notice, 327. 

Lawrence, John, descendants of, 326. 

Lawrence, Major .Samuel, notice of. 322. 

Lawton, Charles Otis, biographical 
notice, 417 

Leavenworth, Dr. Nathaniel, Ijiographi- 
cal notice, 327. 

Lee, Capt. Daniel, biographical notice, 
3-7- 

Lee, Col. William R., biographical 
notice, 328. 

Lee, Gen. William Raymond, biographi- 
cal notice, 328 

Leland, Henry, descendants of, 329. 

Leland, Lieut. Joseph, biographical 
notice, 329. 

Leland, Joseph Warren, biographical 
notice, 32Q. 

L'Eiifant, Major, his design for the 
medal and order, 14. 

Leonard, Ensign Jacob, biographical 
notice, 330. 



Lewis, Lieut. Archelaus, notice of, 397. 
Lillie, Daniel Campbell, biographical 

notice, 332. 
Lillie, Capt. John, biographical notice, 

330- 
Lillie, John, biographical notice, 332. 
Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin, biographical 

notice, 333 ; first President of the 

Mass. Society, 37. 
Lincoln, Benjamin (great-grandson), bio- 
graphical notice, 343. 
Lincoln, Capt. Rufus, biographical 

notice, 343. 
Lincoln, Rufus (son), biographical 

notice, 344. 
Lincoln, Theodore, biographical notice, 

342. 
Lincoln, Thomas, descendants of, 342, 

343- 
Liswell, Lieut. John, biographical 

notice, 344. 
Lobdell, Mrs., landlady at the " Bunch 

of Grapes," 43. 
Lockwood, Rev. William, biographical 

notice, 344. 
Lord, Ensign Jeremiah, biographical 

notice, 344. 
Lothrop, Samuel K , D.D., biographical 

notice, 345. 
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland, biographi- 
cal notice, 347 
Lovell, Lieut. James, biographical 

notice, 347. 
Lovell, "Master" John, reference to, 

347- 
Lovell, Joseph Plympton, biographical 

notice, 350. 
Lovell, Gen. Mansfield, biographical 

notice, 348. 
Lovell, Capt. William, reference to, 

348. 
Lunt, Capt. Daniel, biographical notice, 

350. 
Luzerne, Chevalier de la, accepts mem- 
bership in the Society. 13, I4- 
Lyman, Ensign Cornelius, biographical 

notice, 350. 
Lyman. James Wilkinson, biographical 

notice, 351. 
Lyman, William, biographical notice, 

351- 



568 



McCAY, Ensign Daniel, date of 
commission, 351. 

McDougall, Gen., Cliairman of Com- 
mitiee to wait on grand Committee 
of Congress, 4; first Treasurer-Gen- 
eral of the Society, 15. 

McKendry, George Albert, biographical 
notice, 352. 

McKendry, John, father of Lieut. Wil- 
liam, 351. 

JMcKendry, Lieut. William, biographi- 
cal notice, 351. 

Marble, Lieut. Henry, biographical 
notice, 352. 

Maryland Society, notice of, 29. 

Mason, Lieut. David, Jr., biographical 
notice, 352. 

Mason, James Means, biographical 
notice, 357. 

Mason, James Means (son), biographi- 
cal notice, 357. 

Massachusetts, resolves of General 
Court against the Society, 18; char- 
ter granted by, 544. 

Massachusetts Society, annals of, 37-74, 
Charter, 544; rules, 546; admission 
of members, 48, 49, 60, 63, 66, 73, 74 ; 
officers of, for :S90-iS9i, 74; officers 
since 17S3, 542. 

Maxwell, Lieut.-Col. Hugh, biographi- 
cal notice, 354. 

Maxwell, Hugh (son), biographical 
notice, 355. 

Maxwell, William Munroe, biographi- 
cal notice, 355 

Maynard, Cornelius D., biographical 
notice, 357. 

Maynard, Lieut. John, biographical 
notice, 355. 

Maynard,John, biographical notice, 357. 

Maynard, Jonathan, descendants of, 356. 

Maynard, Capt. Jonathan, biographical 
notice, 356. 

Maynard, Capt. William, biographical 
notice, 356. 

Means, Capt. James, biographical 
notice, 357. 

Mellish, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 357. 

Membership, action of the General 
Society in relation to, 23-26; rules 



of State Societies, 26; rules of the 
Mass. Society, 546. 

Miller, Capt. Jeremiah, biographical 
notice, 35S. 

Miller, Lieut Joseph, biographical no- 
tice, 358. 

Mills, Capt. John, biographical notice, 

35S. 

Mills, Capt. William, biographical no- 
tice, 358. 

Mirabeau, his " Considerations on the 
Order of Cincinnatus," 17, i8. 

Monroe, Pres. James, reception of, and 
address, 54, 55. 

Mooers, Lieut. Benjamin, biographical 
notice, 359. 

Mooers, Edward, descendants of, 359. 

Moor, Lieut. William, biographical no- 
tice, 362. 

Moore, John W., biographical notice, 
360. 

Moore, Joseph, descendants of, 361. 

Moore, Capt. William, biographical no- 
tice, 363. 

Morgan, Dr. Benjamin, biographical no- 
tice, 363. 

Morrill, Major Amos, biographical no- 
tice, 363. 

Morton, Lieut. Silas, biographical no- 
tice, 364. 

Mo.seley, Col. Ebenezer, notice of, 365. 

Moseley, Hon. Ebenezer, father of Ed- 
ward S., 366. 

Moseley, Edward Strong, biographical 
notice, 364. 

Moseley, John, descendants of, 366. 

Myrick, Lieut Samuel, biographical 
notice, 367. 



NASON, Lieut. Nathaniel, bio- 
graphical notice. 367. 

Nelson. Lieut. Henry, date of commis- 
sions, 367. 

Nelson, Rev. Henry W., biographical 
notice. c;o7. 

Newhall, Lieut Col. Ezra, biographical 
notice. 367. 

Newhall, Thomas, bin^raphical notice, 
36S. 

New Hampshire Society, notice of, 29. 



569 



New Jersey Society, notice of, 28. 
Newman, Henry, biographical notice, 

369- 
Newman, Henry (son), biographical 

notice, 369. 
Newman, Lieut. Samuel, biographical 

notice, 369. 
Newman, William H. H., election of, 

369- 
New York Society, notice of, 28. 
Nicholson, Rear Admiral J. W. A , 

biographical notice, 370. 
Nicholson, Capt. Samuel, biographical 

notice, 369. 
Nicholson, Wm. H. D., election of, 371. 
Nixon, Marcellus, biographical notice, 

373- 

Nixon, Col. Thomas, biographical no- 
tice, 371. 

Nixon, Thomas (son), biographical no- 
tice, 372. 

Nixon, Warren, biographical notice, 
372- 

North Carolina Society, notice of, 30. 

North, John, de.scendants of, 374. 

North, Capt. William, biographical no- 
tice, 373. 



O'BRIEN, Hon. Edward K., bio- 
graphical notice, 206 

Oliver, Ensign Alexander, biographical 
notice, 374. 

Oliver, Major Robert, biographical no- 
tice, 374. 

Officers, monthly pay of the several 
grades, 12 

Orations delivered before the Society, 
July 4. 41. 

Original members, statement in relation 
to. 533- 



PALFREY, Gen. Francis Winthrnp, 
biographical notice, 375 ; chosen 
Secretary of the Mass. Society, 67. 
Palfrey, Gen. John Carver, biographi- 
cal notice, 37S. 
Pardee, I.ieut. Aaron, biogr.nphical no- 
tice, 379. 
Parke, Capt Matthew, notice of, 534. 



Parker, Lieut. Benjamin, biographical 
notice, 379. 

Parker, Edward, election of, xlii. 

Parker, Edward William, biographical 
notice, 381. 

Parker, Lieut. Elias (or E. J.), bio- 
graphical notice, 3S0. 

Parker, Hon. Isaac, biographical no- 
tice, 3S0. 

Parker, John, descendants of, 3S0. 

Parker House, meetings of the Society 
at, 38. 

Paterson, Gen. John, biographical no- 
tice, 381. 

Paterson, Gen. John, presides at the or- 
ganization of the Mass. Society, 37. 

Peaoody, Andrew P., D.D., memoir of 
Rev. S. K. Lothrop, 346. 

Peabody, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographi- 
cal notice, 3S2. 

Peirce, Hon. Henry A., biographical 
notice, 385. 

Peirce, Capt. -Lieut. John, biographical 
notice, 383. 

Peirce, Joseph, biographical notice, 

383- 

Peirce, Josei-h Hardy, Jr., election of, 
xlii. 

Peirce, Capt. Silas, biographical notice, 
386. 

Peirce, Thomas, descendants of, 3S3. 
Sc-^ Pierce. 

Pennsylvania Society, notice of, 28. 

Perkins, Edmund, biographical notice, 
387- 

Perkins, John Warren, biographical 
notice, 389. 

Perkins, Samuel, biographical notice, 
387- 

Perkins, Major William, biographical 
notice, 385. 

Perkins, William (grandson), biograph- 
ical notice, 388 ; thanked for services 
as Treasurer, 66. 

Perry, Andrew P., biographical notice, 
230. 

Peters, Lieut.-Col. Andrew, biographi- 
cal notice, 3S9. 

Peters, John Lovett, biographical no- 
tice, 390. 

Peters, Lovett, biographical notice, 390. 



570 



Pettengill, Major Joseph, biographical 
notice, 390. 

Plielon, Lieut. Edward, biographical 
notice, 391. 

riielon, Lieut. John, biographical no- 
tice, 391. 

Phelon, Lieut. Patrick, biographical 
notice, 391. 

Pickering, John (of Ipswich), descend- 
ants of, 393. 

Pickering, Hon. John, biographical no- 
tice, 393. 

Pickering, John (son of Hon. John), 
biographical notice, 394. 

Pickering, John (grandson of Hon. 
John), biographical notice, 394. 

Pickering, Col. Timothy, biographical 
notice, 391. 

Pierce, Lieut. Benjamin, biographical 
notice, 394. 

Pierce, Col. Benjamin, biographical no- 
tice, 395. 

Pierce, Edward L., LL D., 332, 
467. 

Pierce, Hon. Franklin, biographical 
notice, 395 

Pierce, Henry Dearborn, biographical 
notice, 396 

Pierce, Hon. Henry L., 332. 

Pierce, Hon. Josiah, biographical no- 
tice, 397. 

Pierce, Kirk Dearborn, biographical 
notice, 396. 

Pierce, " Sergeant " Thomas, descend- 
ants of, 395, 397. 

Sic- Peirce. 

Pike, Capt. Benjamin, biographical no- 
tice, 39S. 

Pope, Major Isaac, biographical no- 
tice, 39S. 

Pope, Isaac Hovey, biographical notice, 
400. 

Pope, Thomas, descendants of, 399. 

Popkin, Lieut.-Col. John, biographical 
notice, 400. 

Popkin, Rev. John Snelling, biograph- 
ical notice, 401. 

Porter, Dr. Benjamin Jones, biograph- 
ical notice, 401. 

Pratt, Lieut. Joel, biographical notice, 
402. 



Pratt, Joel (son), biographical notice, 
402. 

Pray, Capt. John, biographical notice, 
402. 

Preble, Abraham, descendants of, 4S6. 

Preble, William Pitt, biograi^hical no- 
tice, 485. 

Prescott. John, descendants of, 403. 

Prescott, Dr. Joseph, biographical no- 
tice, 402 ; last survivor of original 
members of the Mass. .Society, 27, 61. 

Prescott, William Hickling. admitted 
as an honorary member, 60 ; notice 
of, 404. 

Price, Lieut. William, biographical no- 
tice, 404. 

Putnam, John, descendants of, 408. 

Putnam, Brig. -Gen. Rufus, biographical 
notice, 404; report on his petition 
relative to e.st.ablishing a branch So- 
ciety in Ohio, 50, 51. 



Q 



UINCY, Hon. Josiah, his esti- 
mate of Capt. S. Shaw, 436. 



RANDALL, Capt. Thomas, bio- 
graphical notice, 40S. 

Rawson, Ensign Jeduthan, date of com- 
mission, 409. 

Reab, Lieut. George, biographical no- 
tice. 409. 

Reidel, Lieut. Henry, referred to, 535. 

Remich, Christian, descendants of, 
410. 

Remich, Cnpt. Timothy, biographical 
notice, 409. 

Remich, Rev. Timothy, notice of, 410. 

Reniick, Major Otis, biographical no- 
tice, 410. 

Rhode Island Society, notice of. 27. 

Rice, Edmund, descendants of. 412. 

Rice, Major Nathan, biographical no- 
tice, 412. 

Rice, Nathan (son), biographical no- 
tice, 413. 

Rice, Dr. Nathan P., biographical no- 
tice, 413. 

Rice, Lieut. Oliver, biographical no- 
tice, 414. 



571 



Richardson, Dr. Abijah, biographical 
notice, 414. 

Richardson, George Draper, biograph- 
ical notice, 415. 

Richardson, Horace, biographical no- 
tice, 415. 

Richardson, William K., election of, 

329- 

Richmond, Capt., suggestion for the 
formation of a Society, 3. 

Rickard, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 416. 

Ripley, Lieut. Hezekiah, biographical 
notice, 416. 

Ripley, Joseph Tilden, biographical no- 
tice, 416. 

Robbins, Kenelm, biographical notice, 
417. 

Robbins, Nathan Bacon, Jr., biograph- 
ical notice, 417. 

Roberts, Capt. Richard Brooke, bio- 
graphical notice, 417. 

Ropes, John C, remarks on the death 
of Gen. Palfrey, 377. 

Rouse, Capt. Oliver, biographical no- 
tice, 417. 

Rowe, Ensign John, biographical no- 
tice, 418. 

Rules and Regulations of the General 
Society, 551. 



SAMPSON, Lieut. Crocker, bio- 
graphical notice, 418. 

Sampson, Henry, descendants of, 418. 

Sargent, George Washington, bio- 
graphical notice, 420. 

Sargent, Ignatius, biographical notice, 
421. 

Sargent, William, descendants of 420 

Sargent, Capt. Winthrop. biographical 
notice. 419 

Satterlee, Benedict, notice of. 421. 

Satterlee, George A., referred to, 
422. 

Satterlee, Gen. Richard S , biograph- 
ical notice, 422. 

Satterlee, Major William, biographical 
notice, 421, 

Savage, Charles Tyler, biographical 
notice, 423. 



Savage, Lieut. Henrv, date of commis- 
sion, 422. 

Savage, Capt. Joseph, biographical no- 
tice, 423. 

Savage, William Henry, biographical 
notice, 423. 

Sawyer, Paymaster George Augustus, 
biographical notice, 426. 

Sawyer, Capt. Horace Bucklin, bio- 
graphical notice, 425. 

Sawyer, Ensign James, biographical 
notice, 424. 

Sawyer, James Lucius, election of, xlii. 

Sawyer, Thomas, descendants of, 424. 

Scammell, Ensign Samuel L., biograph- 
ical notice, 427. 

Scott, Ensign James, date of commis- 
sion, 427. 

Seaver, Robert, descendants of, 428. 

Selden, Lieut. Charles, biographical 
notice, 427. 

.Sever, Ensign James, biographical no- 
tice, 427 ; chosen President of the 
Mass. Society, 60. 

Sever, James Warren, biographical no- 
tice, 42S ; chosen President of the 
Mass. Society, 65 ; resolutions on the 
death of, 65. 

Sever, Rev. Winslow Warren, bio- 
graphical notice, 430. 

Sewall, Henry, descendants of, 431. 

Sevvall, Capt. Henry, biographical no- 
tice. 430. 

Seward, Richard Thompson, biograph- 
ical notice, 432. 

Seward, Capt. Thomas, biographical 
notice, 431. 

Seward, Thomas (son), biographical 
notice, 432. 

Shaw, Francis George, biographical no- 
tice, 43S. 

Shaw, George Russell, biographical no- 
tice. 440. 

Shaw, Robert Gould, biographical no- 
tice, 436; chosen President of the 
Mass. Society. 61. 

Shaw, Capt. Samuel, biographical no- 
tice, 432 ; on the committee to revise 
the " Institution," 6. 

Shaw, William, biographical notice, 
436. 



572 



Shays, Daniel, leader of the insurrec- 
tion, 444. 

Shepard, John (of Mendlesham, Eng.), 
descendants of, 440. 

Shepard, Noah, biographical notice, 

449- 

Shepard, Col. William, biographical 
notice, 440. 

Shepard, Ensign William, biographi- 
cal notice, 449. 

Shute, Dr. Daniel, biographical notice, 
450. 

Shute, Daniel (grandson), biographical 
notice, 450. 

Sikes, Henry Knox, biographical no- 
tice, 321. 

Smith, Alfred Ethelbert, biographical 
notice, 452. 

Smith, Rev. David, biographical notice, 
451. 

Smith, David Marsh, notice of, 452. 

Smith, Capt. Ebenezer (of Lebanon, 
Ct.), biographical notice, 451. 

Smith, Capt. Ebenezer (of Woolwich, 
Me.), biographical notice, 453. 

Smith, Henry, biographical notice, 

454 

Smith, Capt. John Kilby, biographi- 
cal notice, 453. 

Smith, Lieut. Joseph, date of commis- 
sion, 455 

Smith, Lieut. Josiah, biographical no- 
tice, 455. 

Smith, Capt. Silvanus, biographical no- 
tice, 455. 

Smith, Capt, Simeon, biographical no- 
tice, 456. 

Smith, William Henry, biographical 
notice. 454 

Soren, John Johnston, biographical no- 
tice, 294. 

Soren, George Wales, election of, 294. 

South Carolina Society, notice of, 29. 

Spring, Lieut. Simeon, biographical no- 
tice, 456. 

Sproat. Henry Hamilton, biographical 
notice, 4i;8. 

Sprout, Earle. biographical notice, 
458. 

Sprout, Lieut -Col Ebenezer, biograph- 
ical notice, 456. 



Sprout (or Sproat), Robert, descend- 
ants of, 457. 

Sprout, Thomas, biographical notice, 
458. 

Stacy, Lieut.-Col. William, biographi- 
cal notice, 45S. 

Stafford, Ensign John R., biographical 
notice, 460. 

Standing Committee, constitution and 
appointment of, 41. 

State Societies, notices of, 27-30. 

Steuben, Gen , presides at the first 
meeting to form the Society, 6. 

.Stevens, Capt. William, biographical 
notice, 460. 

Stewart, Duncan, an early settler of 
Newbury, 163. 

Stocker, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 460. 

Stocker, George W., biographical no- 
tice, 460. 

Stoddard, John Thomas, biographical 
notice, 477. 

Stone, Capt. Jonathan, biographical 
notice, 461. 

Stone, Lieut. Nathaniel, biographical 
notice, 462. 

Storer, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 462. 

Storey, Capt. William, biographical 
notice, 463. 

-Storey, Charles William, biographical 
notice, 463. 

Story, Elisha, descendants of, 465. 

Story, Dr. Elisha, notice of, 465. 

Story, Capt. John, biographical notice, 

464- 
Story, Capt. John Patten, biographical 
notice, 465 

Sumner, Hon. Charles, biographical 
notice, 46S. 

Sumner, Charles P., biographical notice, 
467. 

Sumner, Major Edwin V., biographical 
notice, 470. 

Sumner, Major Job, biographical no- 
tice, 466. 

Sumner, William descendants of. 467. 

Swan, Ensign Caleb, biographical no- 
tice, 471. 

Swett, Samuel, election of, xlii. 



573 



TAYLOR, Capt. Othniel, biograph- 
ical notice, 471. 

Taylor, Lieut. Tertius, biographical 
notice, 471. 

Taylor, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 472. 

Taylor, William (son), biographical no- 
tice, 472. 

Thacher, Anthony, descendants of, 473. 

Thacher, Charles, biographical notice, 
476. 

Thacher, George McDonogh, biograph- 
ical notice, 475. 

Thacher, George W., biographical 
notice, 476. 

Thacher, Dr. James, biographical no- 
tice, 472. 

Thacher, Lieut. Nathaniel, biographical 
notice, 474. 

Thacher, Rev. Thomas [1620], descend- 
ants of, 475. 

Thacher, Rev. Thomas [1756], bio- 
graphical notice, 475. 

Thatcher, Rear Admiral Henry K , 
biographical notice, 315; chosen 
President of the Mass. .Society, 66 ; 
resolutions on the death of, 67. 

Thayer, Joseph Henry Jackson, bio- 
graphical notice, 290. 

Thomas, Dr. John, biographical notice, 
476. 

Thomas, John Boies, biographical no- 
tice, 477. 

Thomas, Capt. Joseph, biographical 
notice, 477. 

Thompson, Dr. Charles H., biographi- 
cal notice. 47S. 

Thompson, Dr. Thaddeus, biographical 
notice, 477. 

Ticknor, Sergt. William, descendants 
of, 173. 

Tisdale, Capt. James, biographical 
notice. 478. 

Torrey, Lieut, and Adj. William, bio- 
graphical notice, 478. 

Torrey, William (son), biographical 
notice. 479. 

Torrey, William (grandson), biographi- 
cal notice, 479. 

Torrey, Lieut. William, biographical 
notice, 479. 



Tovvnsend, Andrew, descendants of, 
481. 

Tovvnsend, Dr. David, biographical 
notice, 480; chosen President of the 
Mass. Society, 58. 

Townsend, David S, biographical no- 
tice, 482. 

Townsend, Gen. Edward D., biographi- 
cal notice, 482. 

Town, Lieut. Jacob, biographical notice, 
480. 

Treadwell, Capt. William, biographical 
notice, 4S3. 

Trescott, Major Lemuel, biographical 
notice, 483. 

Trescott, William, descendants of, 484. 

Trotter, Capt. John, biographical notice, 
4S4. 

Trowbridge, Lieut. Luther, biographi- 
cal notice, 484. 

Trowbridge, Thomas, descendants of, 
4S4. 

Trumbull, Charles Perkins, biographical 
notice, 133. 

Trumbull, George Clapp, biographical 
notice, 132. 

Tucker, Lieut. Joseph, biographical 
notice, 485. 

Tudor, Frederic, biographical notice, 
488. 

Tucker, Capt. Samuel, election of, xlii. 

Tudor, Frederic (son), biographical 
notice, 489. 

Tudor, Lieut.-Col. William, biographi- 
cal notice, 486. 

Tudor, William (son), biographic.il 
notice, 487. 

Tupper, Lieut. Anselm, biographical 
notice, 490. 

Tupper, Col. Benjamin, biographical 
notice, 489. 

Turner, George Henry, biographical 
notice. 491. 

Turner, Humphrey, descendants of. 491. 

Turner, John, descendants of, 492. 

Turner, Capt. Jonathan, biographical 
notice, 491. 

Turner, Lieut. Marlbry, biographical 
notice, 491. 

Turner, Lieut. Pcleg, biographical no- 
tice, 492. 



574 



Turner, Perez, biographical notice, 491. 
Turner, Capt. Thomas, biographical 
notice, 492. 



UNITED States Hotel, meetings 
of the Society at, 38. 
Upham, Joseph Badger, biographical 
notice, 146. 



T riRGINIA Society, notice of, 

Vose, Lieut.-Col. Elijah, biographical 
notice, 492. 

Vose, Elijah (son), biographical no- 
tice, 493. 

Vose, Francis, biographical notice, 493. 

Vose, Henry, biographical notice, 493. 

Vose, Isaac D., biographical notice, 

494- 

Vose, Rev. James C, biographical no- 
tice, 495. 

Vose, Col. Joseph, biographical notice, 

493- 
Vose, Robert, descendants of, 493, 

495- ■ 

Vose, Rufus Chandler, biographical 
notice, 495. 

Vose, Capt. Thomas, biographical no- 
tice, 496. 

Vose, Thomas S., biographical notice, 
497- 



WALES, Lieut. Joseph, biograph- 
ical notice, 437. 
Walker, Lieut. Edward, biographical 

notice, 497. 
Walker, Capt. Robert, biographical no- 
tice, 498. 
Wardwell, Lieut. Joseph, biographical 

notice, 498. 
Wardwell, William H., biographical 

notice, 49S. 
Warren, Lieut. Adriel, biographical 

notice, 499 
Warren, Henry, biographical notice, 

500. 
Warren, Lieut. James, Jr., biographical 

notice, 499. 



Warren, Lieut. John, biographical no- 
tice, 501. 

Warren, John (of Charlestown), de 
scendants of, 502. 

Warren, Dr. John Collins, biograph 
ical notice, 501 ; admitted as an hon 
orary member, 61. 

Warren, Dr. John Collins (grandson) 
biographical notice, 503. 

Warren, Dr. Jonathan Mason, bio 
graphical notice, 503. 

Warren, Richard, descendants of, 
499- 

Warren, Dr. Winslow, biographica 
notice, 5C0 ; resolutions on the death 
of, G5. 

Warren, Winslow (son), biographica 
notice, 500; chosen Treasurer of the 
Mass. .Society, 67 ; chosen Vice-Pres- 
ident of the Mass. Society, 71. 

Washington, accepts Presidency of the 
General Society, 15; letter to Ro 
chambeau, 15; willing to make con 
cessions to the opposition, 19; dis- 
approves the efforts to overawe the 
civil authorities, 5 ; address to mem 
bers of convention in 17S4, 20, 
letter to Kno.x in 17S7, 22; address 
to members of the Mass. Society, 45, 
46 ; action of the Mass. Society on 
the death of, 49. 50. 

Watson, Capt. William, biographica 
notice, 503. 

Wattles, Capt. Mason, biographica 
notice, 504. 

Webb, Capt. George, biographical no 
tice, 504 

Webber, Lieut. Daniel, biographica 
notice, 504. 

Webster, Daniel, biographical notice 
504 ; admitted as an honorary mem 
ber, 62. 

Webster, Ebenezer, notice of, 504. 

Wellington, Lieut. Elisha, biographica 
notice, 504 

Wellmgton, Elisha (son), biographica 
notice, 504 

Wells, Lieut. IJenjainin, biographica' 
notice, 505 

Wells, Rev. E. M. P., biographical no 
tice, 505. 



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575 



Wells, Lieut. James, biographical no- 
tice, 505. 

Wells, Samuel Adams, biographical no- 
tice, 50S. 

Wells, Capt. Thomas, biographical no- 
tice, 508. 

Wells, William V., referred to, 509. 

Wesson, Col. James, biographical no- 
tice, 509. 

Wetmore, George Peabody, biograph- 
ical notice, 450. 

Whitcomb, Col. Asa, notice of, 3G2. 

White, Lieut. Edward, biographical no- 
tice, 509. 

White, Capt. Haffield, biographical no- 
tice, 510. 

Whiting, Lieut. John, biographical no- 
tice, 510. 

Whiting, Rev. Samuel, descendants of, 

sy- 

Whiting, Commodore William D., bio- 
graphical notice, 512. 

Whitwell, Frederick Augustus, bio- 
graphical notice, 513. 

Whitwell, Samuel, descendants of, 
514. 

Whitwell, Dr. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 513. 

Wild, Charles Tidd, biographical no- 
tice, 515. 

Wilds, Lieut. Ebenezer, biographical 
notice, 514. 

Wild, Ebenezer (son), biographical no- 
tice, 515. 

Williams, Abraham, descendants of, 
5'5- 

Williams, Capt. Abraham, biographical 
notice, 515. 

Williams, Ale.\ander, biographical no- 
tice, 522. 



Williams, Lieut Ebenezer, biograph- 
ical notice, 516. 

Williams, Henry Howell, Jr , bio- 
graphical notice, 517. 

Williams, Capt. John, biographical no- 
tice, 516. 

Williams, John (son), biographical no- 
tice, 517. 

Williams, Capt. Joseph, biographical 
notice, 517. 

Williams, Lieut. Robert, biographical 
notice, 51S. 

Williams, Robert Pearce, biographical 
notice, 521. 

Wing, Ensign Jonathan, biographical 
notice, 523. 

Winslow, Charles Henry, biographical 
notice, 525. 

Winslow, John Edward, biographical 
notice, 525. 

Winslow, John {1597), descendants of, 
524- 

Winslow, Capt. John, biographical no- 
tice, 523. 

Winslow, John (son), biographical no- 
lice, 524. 

Wolcott, Henry, descendants of, 526. 

Wolcott, Huntington Frothingham, no- 
tice of, 527.' 

Wolcott, Joshua Huntington, biograph- 
ical notice, 526. 

Wolcott, Hon. Oliver, 526. 

Woodbridge, Capt. Christopher, bio- 
graphical notice, 527. 

Woodward, Dr. Samuel, biographical 
notice, 527. 



YEOIMANS, Lieut. John, biograph- 
ical notice, 52S. 



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